Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...with us, beginning by talking about Cuba's history of agriculture. "Cuba's first farmers were slaves," Miguel said, and because of this past as well as Cuba's history of development, people...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
"Log Cabin design. Pieced by grandma Snoddy at home. Mother carried it when she went to housekeeping. Made before Mother married." History: The Log Cabin pattern first developed in...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...track line from the corner of Broad and Marietta streets along Broad street to Houston, thence to Hillard and to Highland avenue and to Edgewood. This line was subsequently extended...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...Center for Historical Research, Oneida County Black History Archive, and For the Good, Inc. Such movements are controversial and have been denounced as essentialist, white-identified, privileged, and unrealistic, but participants...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...map of North Carolina highlighting Wake County, February 12, 2006. Map by David Benbennick. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Student diversity assignment strategies have been a...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...When he found a farm for sale, the FHA office denied his application and continually gave him flawed farming advice. Pigford took extension courses, expanded his rented land, attempted to...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...inform the themes she engages in her writing. Guest edited by Joan Wylie Hall, the Southern Quarterly special issue addresses themes of history, race, place, memory, and intertextuality through poems,...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...Pass. The sheer number of oysters in one place was notable, however the history came from the laminated nametags accompanying each sampling of oysters. Rather than numeric codes in fine...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...drew attention to the role of academia in the spread of Sacred Harp singing in his review of Miller’s Traveling Home in the Journal of Southern History 76 (2010), 795....
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...his pictures emphasize the chaotic nature of the post-Katrina Gulf Coast landscape, along with the difficulties of restoring human-made order. He prefers to photograph using black-and-white film; for him, color...