Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...glad the war ended. The soldier who took her away from the lint and heat leans on the mill gate waiting for her. It is October, he holds a cigarette...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...(ICE has replaced INS under the Department of Homeland Security) have arrested hundreds of men gathered at popular gathering spots for day laborers. Some African Americans see recent Latino immigrants...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...the world shared by stonemason and patron. The gravestones, in fact, offer additional ways to enter that world, for they were its sculpture gallery. The inscriptions upon them also compose...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...In blisteringly hot sun, chain gang prisoners break rocks under the watchful eye of an armed guard and his dog. —Gwen Magee The Mississippi Museum of Art commissioned Five Years...
Genres of Southern Literature
...texts. Anthologies and critical surveys usually gather works into groupings that emphasize specific time and history bound periods: antebellum, post-bellum, the "renascence" (equated with the "modern" or "the period between...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...the town's industrial capacity and access to natural resources and cheap labor. As Spears notes, Anniston was founded as an experiment during Reconstruction and by the 1880s had been dubbed...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Professor Joseph Henry, the Smithsonian secretary, observed in his desk diary on January 27: "Today, a large number of carpenters commenced the putting on the roof—a gang of colored men...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...racial disparity burdens only a small number of minority voters in a small, rural polling place, does the relatively "small" size of the harm argue against a finding of a...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...are featured on both the Southern Spaces and MARBL blogs. Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, December 14, 2006. Photograph by Brett Weinstein. Released under a CC BY-SA 2.0 license....
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...and Robert A. W. Dunn. View larger version. In the Birmingham and Atlanta metropolitan regions, the number of singings has held steady even as their geography has shifted, revealing nuance...