End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...government also released relief funds to individual state governments, although often these funds did not reach the people who needed them.1Rebecca Riess and Devon M. Sayers, "Alabama Governor Signs Bill...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...level of literal and conceptual “progress,” we also understand that, for the enslaved, a predatory path unfurled. Pulled backward across the center at "Evergreen," we ask, what force carries us...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...narrative to leaven her historical treatment of black DC, and includes several extended oral histories that add flavor to Go-Go Live. This wide-ranging approach, however, leaves little room for nuance...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...never left those hills, a place of almost unreal natural beauty, much of which is federally protected and undeveloped. I have never quite been able to put a metro county...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...connects the open ocean with areas behind the beach, allowing tidal waters to move in and out. Cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) – Grass species that dominates lower parts of Georgia coastal...
Making History
...What I know of sacrifice is the tin spoons that always fall into my dorm room radiator. Cereal:spoon. Ice milk:spoon. The world is lousy with spoons. The world is lousy...
Scarecrow
...cawed Unmoved, their plucking a parade. The wind blew the odor of death In my direction. I had a mind To cry; I shut my marble eyes Too afraid to...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...formal parlor, sometimes described by social historians as a "sacred" space, where weddings, funerals, and other public events were held. In addition, larger houses, such as the one built by...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Youngest Governor (Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books, 2008), 260, 303–306; William Warren Rogers et al., Alabama: A History of a Deep South State (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994), 547–548. Alabama's...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...The Unexpected Impact of Welfare Reform on Older Women in Rural Communities," Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 35, no. 3 (2008): 153–171. Health clinics, legal aid services, and local...