On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...Removal Routes from James W. Clay, Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989). As Indian removal gets underway in the early 1830s, captivity narratives situated...
Finding Media
...film, and many—though not all—are digitized and available for public use. Creative Commons: Creative Commons allows users to license their own work for public use as an alternative to ordinary...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...to William Faulkner, and not because the songwriters in the band and the author of Absalom, Absalom hailed from Deep South places, but because both of them, in social science...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...gawking tourists, all staples of premiers up at Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard.1We should all refuse to call Grauman's Chinese Theater, with its famed footprints of the stars out...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...worthy of in-depth cultural criticism and historical analysis. And yet, despite my admiration for their work, or perhaps because of it, these authors always left me wanting more, particularly greater...
A Mess of Poke
...cultivate it and use the starch of the roots for tempura batter, tofu, noodles, and gelatinous confections.) I pull most of the poke plants up all summer long because otherwise...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...Verey and Penelope Hobhouse. Looking into Ryan Gainey's Garden, Decatur, Georgia, March 26, 2010. Photograph by Flickr user JR P. Creative commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Chad Stogner, founder of...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...color line and built homes on the west side of Center Street. Between 1947 and 1965, Black residences in Birmingham were bombed at least fifty times. A graduate of Morehouse College...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...LICKER OF THE WHIP HAND, THE 'HOUSE NIGGER' . . . THE RACISTS' DARLING," "THE ARCH REACTIONARY," and "THE 24-KARAT BITCH." The latter insult Kennedy attributes to Alan Lomax, quoting...