A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...The big machine passed, as usual, through the dewy Delta cottonfields' pre-dawn haze, continuing on its course without stopping. Meanwhile, the fugitive had laid down on his stomach, perpendicular to...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993) and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (Norton, 2000). Forthcoming books include A...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...published work in the field of environmental studies include: Mikko Saikku, Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Shirley Stewart Burns, Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia Peter West, Trying...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...Center, the Metro Atlanta Coyote Project studies behaviors and activity patterns of urban coyotes in order to develop more effective management strategies of these populations. Mary Paglieri of the Little...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...Belasco, America's leading theater manager, who had seen her work in New York and confirmed her talent. "You will undoubtedly make a fine character actress," he had written (Belasco 1904)....
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...Mine disaster. His images of laid-off and out-of-work miners suggest current tensions between miners and coal company management. Kanawha River Coal Load Out Facility. Montgomery, WV, 2005. Mining and the...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...management practices. He had his own views that the state was looking away from or ignoring the impacts of over-pumping from the aquifer. So, yeah, it's a lot of different things....
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...and African American art. Currently, the Africana archives at the Schomburg Center are organized into five divisions based on format. Books, serials, and microforms are managed by the General Research...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...manager of the Historic and Cultural Preservation Department of the Muscogee Nation, notes that the Mvskoke spelling of the river would be: "orko ofv hvcce," meaning Pawpaw ("Orko," pronounced oth-go), river, or...