"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
Work
...administrator at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, receiving her MA in English and Creative Writing from North Carolina State University. While in North Carolina, Arnoult published several...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...professor of US history at Temple University. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina in 1992 and has written extensively on labor, urban spaces, and popular culture....
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...to take, returning the rest to forage through the delta mud. The numbers in the coolers spoke: they were falling, 300 pounds, 225, 175. Every year they fell—he remembers 1,500...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...of redistricting following the 2010 census. The plaintiff group (which includes the North Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Democracy North Carolina, the A. Philip...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2010. Born in Hendersonville, North Carolina, October 3, 1944, he has taught since 1971 at Cornell University, where he...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...a geographical definition of the Lower Chattahoochee region: The Lower Chattahoochee River Valley region . . . is marked at its northern end by the point at which the Chattahoochee...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...Press, 2007) he laid out a manifesto for bringing history to our senses. In How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,...
Palomares Bajo
...boon to struggling economies. Accidents in Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas had been mercifully free of thermonuclear explosions—and, it seems, of significant radioactive contamination. In this...