Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...hundred $100 fine print hardbacks of the book, unavailable for retail. When the paperback came out in April of 1997, we sold 800 copies the first day at a book...
Whiskey and Geography
...But they did so, even though their words rang with hypocrisy. Hosea Thomas' still workers in Endicott, (Franklin County) Virginia, 1915. The Martin, Rake, and Thomas families trace their origins...
Single Centers of Creation?
Essay Detail from Nancy Lowe, Source, Species Icons exhibit, Schatten Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009. Introduction In this sampling from ORIGIN, a collaborative exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...and the dispossession of Native American lands on the grounds that later became the institutions that comprise the consortium "Universities Studying Slavery," including Emory, University of Virginia, the Virginia Military...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...like-mindedness: The population should be homogeneous…reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable…. And a spirit of excessive tolerance is to be deprecated....
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...to time.4On slave ownership by antebellum Virginia colleges see Jennifer Oast, "Forgotten Masters: Institutional Slavery in Virginia, 1680–1860." Unpublished PhD Dissertation, College of William and Mary, 2009. The Minutes of...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...1850 and 1860 provide population statistics by nation of origin, providing the total number of German-born in each state. Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth U.S. Census 1860a-04,...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...sky, "Well, once there was just dark. You ask me, the light's winning."19Cary Joji Fukunaga, "Form and Void," True Detective (HBO, March 9, 2014), Episode 8. ) as a cheap,...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...Epps. Viewers numbed by years of cheap thrills need a film like this to remind them that horror is real and persistent, especially if you try to ignore it. About...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...would also allow for the cheaper transportation of fossil fuels, Spears argues that the NO DAPL protests were a great example of "an intersectional grassroots movement linking indigenous rights, climate...