Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
Brushes with War
...Brown, whose assault on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry that year seemed an omen of war. When a larger meteor penetrated the earth's atmosphere the following year, the artist...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...drove her to take up the cause social justice in such a decisive way? What gave Anne and Carl the courage, year after year, to dedicate everything they had to...
"Aint that Something?"
...of the region that still endure; think of the toothless, bearded hillbilly with a jug of moonshine, or simple folks carving wood or making quilts. A hundred years later, James...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...movement by educating generation after generation of students and have been doing so for nearly forty years. We have attained about ten graduating cohorts of undergrads so far. This is...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...sceptre, In one hand he holds the rod— In the other hand the Scripture, And says that he's a man of God. —Joshua McCarter Simpson Joshua McCarter Simpson, ca. 1840–1876....
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...years old and living in Greenville with her married sister, Buena Vista Westmoreland, who had a year-old daughter. Later she frequently stayed at the home of her widower cousin James...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...In recognition of how African American migrants fueled Chicago’s economy at the time, John Wiley describes working two jobs for twenty-five years. Bud Billiken parade in "simulated newsreel," Goin' to...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...year and a half and appears on his Capricorn album, Dinnertime. Next, Leavell spent six months on the road with Dr. John (Mac Rebennack). He refers to his time with...
Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...