Mississippi Delta
Essay Mississippi Delta region. Map by Stacey Martin, 2006. Sociologist Rupert Vance wrote in the 1930s of the "cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed" Mississippi Delta as "the deepest South." A half...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...that all the stories worth telling—stories of love and betrayal, heartache and triumph, justice and oppression—could be found in one small corner of the world. Getting the stories right meant...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...for a more honest accounting of the events that defined the US South for generations. No matter how much organizers strive to acknowledge the profound human costs and stakes in...
Congregation
...and paper sleeves for pennies, nickels, and dimes. What stops me is the stack of tithing envelopes. Reading my face, she must know I can't see why—even now— she tithes,...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Turn right on Tyler Street You are at the church. Coming From Athens: Take Highway 78 West to Monroe Exit on East Spring Street. Come into town. Take a right...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...past, present, and future can take place among collaborating institutions and organizations." Atlanta Studies is not just for those in the academic arena, but for members of the public as...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...Heavy thread work suggests layers of architectural and cultural history on a typical street corner. The featureless figure of a musician propped against a street lamp stands in as a...
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
...eighteen turbines and generates a total capacity of twenty-nine megawatts, which is enough to provide power to about 3,800 homes. It is the only windfarm in the southeast United States....
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...seasonal migrants, the tourists who step ashore at Charleston’s Union Pier Terminal, are more likely to become sick aboard their crowded cruise ship than when they stroll down Meeting Street....
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...1996. Regarding the park renovations and the statue, Peel continued, "I have devoted heart and soul to JHP [John Howell Park] this last year and a half. We will complete...