American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...to address the complexities of coastal restoration illustrated by the Mardi Gras Pass example. Impact of Salt Water Intrusion, March 25, 2011. Image created by Wikimedia user Hui Tian as part...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...days spent in churches or community centers singing songs from The Sacred Harp, a nineteenth-century Georgia tunebook revised every generation or so. The tunebook uses a pedagogical system in which...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...southeast of the present-day town of Allendale. The will of Robert Martin stipulates that his house on Charlotte Street, its furniture, and "house servants" will remain in the custody of...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...setting of her fiction not only because it is familiar, but also because she finds a means of entering, through its peculiar apertures, an altogether different metaphysical locus. For this...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...stand in 1963, but were surprised at the building's level of decay: the administration warned us that structural instability might cause the roof to collapse while filming. We decided to...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...this was possible because much deeply traditional life had long remained in the city, and also because the tradition writ large has been one of explicit improvisation—be it musical, in...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...2006 renewal had overwhelming, bi-partisan support: no votes against the bill in the Senate and only thirty-three nays in the Republican-controlled House. "The right of ordinary men and women to...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...owned about fifteen slaves and many properties in Maryland and the District of Columbia, including the properties now known as Dumbarton House, Beall-Washington House, Conjuror's Disappointment and Rock of Dumbarton....
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...modernity, those self-interested promoters of the benefits of wage labor, efficiency, discipline, and "productive" (i.e., profitable for them and their kind) use of the land. Declaring makeshift agricultural practices a...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...Chippewa Square, Savannah, Georgia, May 22, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user BEV Norton. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bottom, Detail of General Oglethorpe Statue, Savannah, Georgia, February 12, 2010. Photograph...