Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...Alabama, 1961. The most concrete example of this practice is Christenberry. This exhibit originated in the museum’s desire to display the six vintage prints, shot in Hale County, Alabama, in...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
Review The present system of flood control in the Mississippi Valley is a compromise resulting from a long and complicated interplay among interest groups. The current solution to the problem...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...are more often than not organized around watersheds and have nonrigid boundaries that differ from political borders like those around counties or nations. After only a few months in Port...
Huntsville, Alabama images
Huntsville, Alabama: Big Spring International Park Attracted by a fast-flowing spring, John Hunt, the founder of Huntsville, built a cabin here in 1805. Six years later, Huntsville became the first...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...by having the climactic scene of "Kabnis" take place underground is figured aboveground in 12 Years a Slave. At one point during his captivity on the Epps plantation (time in...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...by the federal government. These are important not only to provide background and context, but also because the often-contested terrain of scientific knowledge and expertise is so central to understanding...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...never done any filming at all. Because of my agricultural background and my organizing, and farming, I came back to the United States and, after a couple of fits and...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...mayor who bought the ladies' favors with river quartz, maybe east from some trip west to see or returning north from New Orleans or just lost in those years after...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...male. However, since at the least the 1970s, women have worked in the mines, including underground, albeit in small numbers. I use the language of "wives and widows" because most...