An Oyster by Any Other Name
...local flavor, a bacchanalia fitting the surrounding party. Kelly Yandell, Elm Grove oysters, Galveston, Texas, 2011. Mad Island, Elm Grove, Todd’s Dump, Possum Pass, Bayou Cook, Pepper Grove, and Ladies...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...in Madison County combines the persistence of established local networks with the transformations accompanying new technologies, a diversifying and more transient population, new money, and the effects of I-26, a...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...promoted her debut through advertisements and well-placed references, Adrienne succeeded in gaining the attention of more than ten Boston area newspapers. For the most part, the reviews were glowing. "She...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...is the executive director of the Mobile Botanical Gardens, and John C. Hall is curator of the Black Belt Museum at the University of West Alabama. EPA ecoregions level III...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...other vigilante practices. An emphasis on this widespread practice beyond the US South was critical to Michael Pfeifer's previous two books on lynching, and remains central in this new edited...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...California, Texas, and Florida with historically high levels of Latino immigration, but less is known about how these newcomers are met in nontraditional destination locales known as the "New Latino...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...Introduction to the Writings of Confederate History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939, reprinted 1998), 59. Ellen Glasgow, c. 1890. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Writer Ellen Glasgow,...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...people have drawn on a limited number of tropes. Whether Bayard Wootten's photographic illustrations for Cabins in the Laurel,1Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel (Chapel Hill: University of North...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
Review The yeoman farmer is a central figure in debates over the historical dispossessions that created the place we now call Appalachia. For historians like Ron Eller, these self-sufficient small...
Mississippi Delta
...drawn half oval." Elevation goes from 205 above sea level below Memphis to eighty feet at Vicksburg, averaging 125 feet in height from Greenwood to Greenville. Flooding has been endemic,...