Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...March 1977, interview A-0313, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, available online in theDocumenting the American South Collection at http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/A-0313/menu.html. For Daniels' awareness of...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...district. I recently participated in worship services with many of these descendants at the Seneca Community Church, where stories of African American contributions to the first Smithsonian building are proudly...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...ship's deck, did not enter service until 1998. Although the net value of shipping continued to increase during this period due to trade in grain and petroleum, the number of...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...others to continuously struggle must be understood within the current context of deindustrialization and economic restructuring. In the late twentieth century, New Orleans became a service-oriented tourist economy with culture,...
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
Janet Powell, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005. Located north of Oak Ridge and about thirty miles northwest of Knoxville, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm was built in the 2000s as...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
Review Cover of David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan's The Makers of the Sacred Harp, 2010. Shape-note singing from The Sacred Harp tunebook is one of the most vibrant...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
Review Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry, Cambridge University Press, 2011. In a few days, well before the first mosquito-killing frost reaches the South Carolina Lowcountry, I’ll head...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...hundred $100 fine print hardbacks of the book, unavailable for retail. When the paperback came out in April of 1997, we sold 800 copies the first day at a book...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
Review The present system of flood control in the Mississippi Valley is a compromise resulting from a long and complicated interplay among interest groups. The current solution to the problem...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
Essay A just-released report from the Southern Education Foundation—"The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation"—finds that more than 5.7 million children lived in extreme...