"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...of the region in 1770 and readily distributed land-grants to Americans to protect the territory from the British. France similarly used “Louisiana” strategically, and after re-establishing control of the region,...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...in a Mark Bittman recipe. Photographer and UVA professor William Wylie has grown a visually and emotionally rich exhibit out of the limited collections of the museum, some key loans,...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...smoke, and their role in the inferno similarly obscure, the machine and its operator assume a ghostly presence. The tension between darkness and light, the heavenly and hellish, the spectral...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...ironically step back and assume this scholarly distance from the ways that places get culturally and socially constructed but to have our scholarship actually and intentionally engage in that process,...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...a critical mass in New Orleans. He believed marijuana "was as habit forming as morphine or cocaine" and that "constant smoking will ruin the health."12"New Drug Habit Rapidly Growing, Health...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...and contemporary landscape. Understanding structural dimensions of this discrimination is paramount to creating cities where resources are shared more equitably. Austin, imagined as a liberal anomaly in a state long...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...how casually and frequently Warren practices his violence. He quickly kills all of the helpless kittens. Guthrie vividly describes the scene: He picked the second kitten up in the grip...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...the only works in the collection created by African Americans, works which were acquired recently or entered the collection accidentally. The boxes are laid out as a rough timeline based...
Our Backward Revolution
...and show no remorse”. Finally, there was his constant sadistic behavior—“He takes gleeful pleasure in harming and humiliating other people. He is undoubtedly the most prolific cyberbully in history.”36John Gartner,...
"Aint that Something?"
...comfort for Dawn, and it's deeply tied to her family—it's impossible to separate the two. Most of Dawn's family lives in the region, but don't offer much stability—a ragged bunch...