Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...representatives of labor unions from across the country—longshoremen, flight attendants, municipal employees, as well as members of the United Mine Workers of America from West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
...island. In addition to ongoing environmental study, extensive archaeological research has occurred at St. Catherines with regard to Native American settlements, the Spanish mission of Santa Catalina de Guale, and...
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...poetic qualities of Ariel's Ecology. Leonora Sansay's travelogue, Secret History (1808), and a novel sometimes attributed to her, Zelica (1820) (in which the Haitian revolutionary Henri Christophe sets Saint-Domingue's capital...
Birdhouses
...the distance begin to brighten, deep blue to something like green. Everything winged must be dreaming. —Susan Ludvigson, "Grace"2Susan Ludvigson, Sweet Confluence: New and Selected Poems (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...in national surveys."5Nicholas A. Valentino and David O. Sears, "Old Times There Are Not Forgotten: Race and Partisan Realignment in the Contemporary South," American Journal of Political Science 49, no....
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...minute by minute. The air was diaphanous with salty mist, like a veil. A finger of white sand reached out from Little St. Simons Island as if to calm the...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...such as New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. Never taken too seriously by most scholars, Miami remains a deeply understudied city. As election polls and media reports often suggest, it...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...a captured copy of the 1915 Plan de San Diego revealed Carranza adherents' intent to use a series of violent uprisings to regain territory in the old Spanish Southwest (Texas,...
Writing Appalachia
...readings.2Outstanding specialized anthologies include W. K. McNeil, ed., Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture (1995); Sandra L. Ballard and Patricia L Hudson, eds., Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia...