Laurel River, North Carolina
...2000. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. The new bridge over the Laurel River is the tallest bridge in North Carolina at 240 feet, Laurel River, NC, 2000. Photo courtesy of...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...Márquez, Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), 17. Between the 1940s through early 2000s, Márquez places questions about Latino racialization at...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...reviewed by the editorial board. AtlantaStudies.org also offers a gateway to several projects and resources. Current featured projects are the ECDS's Battle of Atlanta smartphone-accessible tour; the Peoplestown Project about the...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...as symbiotic southern genres, even if only contrapuntally. The plantation romances were written partly as answers to Northern media’s images, yet it is also striking to note some thematic coding...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. Brood II, a billions-strong legion of cicadas, is expected to emerge later this summer and overrun the East Coast from North Carolina...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...this endeavor is Peel's manuscript collection. Originally from North Carolina, Peel moved to Atlanta in 1976 where, as a person with HIV, he experienced first-hand both the devastating effects of...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...sky, "Well, once there was just dark. You ask me, the light's winning."19Cary Joji Fukunaga, "Form and Void," True Detective (HBO, March 9, 2014), Episode 8. ) as a cheap,...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...