Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Business," Memphis Business Journal, October 15, 2004, 1, 50. The presence of Federal Express also influenced Northwest Airlines' decision to establish a Memphis hub for passenger flights. For more than...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
Introduction This multimedia essay complements the 2007 Appalshop film Morristown: in the air and sun. Written by independent filmmaker Anne Lewis, the director of Morristown, and Fran Ansley, a Tennessee...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...obsessions, throughout his work. But more than that, it gave me the opportunity to see how he changed from book to book. Wrong. Courtesy of The University of Pittsburgh Press....
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and GQ, and selected for the anthologies Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, and The O. Henry Awards' Prize Stories. His...
Encountering COVID
..."Maybe we shouldn't have photos in the book. Then it would be elegiac." So the book went without the photos; the way it's set up, it kind of tumbles. In...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...murders that occur near her home. By book's end, we have learned that the villains are none other than subdivision resident and dinner party host Bob Dunn and his mistress...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Shenid Bhayroo, Director of Photography Joey Watson, Co-Director of Photography and Equipment Manager Jordy Wax, Editor Trey Willard and Ben Powell, Sound Reuben Mitchell, Narrator Filmmakers: Pierre Cazaubon, James Driscoll,...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...is that in Georgia and elsewhere, government's inability to solve problems has become a self-fulfilling prophesy.9Jay Bookman, "The self-induced paralysis of Georgia government," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jay Bookman Blog, August...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...days spent in churches or community centers singing songs from The Sacred Harp, a nineteenth-century Georgia tunebook revised every generation or so. The tunebook uses a pedagogical system in which...