James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...pounds easily from one hundred traps in a day. When Holland got hungry, he cut the engine and rested on the waters, dolphins in the foreground, pelicans diving headfirst, waves...
Brushes with War
...complementary exhibition at the Met, called "Photography and the Civil War," ran through Labor Day, 2013, and also produced an outstanding catalogue.) A third broad section of Harvey's book follows...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...poverty in the United States in 2008—surviving on less than seven or eight dollars per day. Almost one in every twelve children was in a household with an income below...
The Liminal Site
...Arbor Day Foundation—hardly a political organization—published, based on the past fifteen years' climate data, its independent revision of the USDA's 1990 map of climate hardiness zones (arborday.org/media/zones.cfm), reinforcing what gardeners...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...wanted to present the Great Migration as contemporary rather than "history," present rather than past. This clip demonstrates how viewers are brought into dynamic environments like Monday nights at Artis’s...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...After the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, the neighborhoods became out of bounds to the parades. Still, the visual celebration of Protestantism, identification with British culture, and denigration of the...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
Essay On the first Monday of October 1974, a belligerent crowd of two hundred whites besieged a local school bus filled with African American students attempting to depart Destrehan High...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...disciplined because they were frightened 'cause the Ku Klux Klan would come rolling up. They were never in danger, but they didn't know. You know, those early days—those young southern...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...fresh. That might mean working on re-photographic diptychs one day and going on a long paddle to photograph some place new the next day. This one is a favorite, and...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...always the day after yesterday. What can we gain by understanding the South not as a region, but as a geography of many changing regions and places? We developed and...