Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...ed. Heidi R. Bean and Mike Chasar (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011), 143–172. This "relational sacred"—which extends the expressions of memory or ritual beyond religious confines—informs more specifically...
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...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...when Congress provided that all slaveowners in the city would be compensated financially for the loss of their human property. Nonetheless, the Fugitive Slave Law was still, in principle, in...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
...was scheduled to close in February 2007 and transfer its weaving operations to Brazil. Although the highly mechanized factory required few workers, the Katherine Plant’s closing marked the end of...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...to their histories. In 2007 the Richmond Slavery Reconciliation Statue, prominently placed in Shockoe Bottom, recognized the city's role in the transatlantic and interstate slave trades, and the city opened...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...known musician in Talbot County. He recalled the many times he walked away with prizes offered at the theater in nearby Junction City. 'I was rough then,' he said. 'I...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...He wasn't glowing with his review, but he wasn't negative either. He then went on to say, "Why didn't you tell about that illegal immigrant down in West Lake that...