"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...into the modern era by the cheap electricity and federal intervention of the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority. (There are two TVA songs in the Truckers catalogues.)2The two songs are...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...subject that has figured in every United Nations environmental since 1972) and the international negotiations and treaties over the limitations of carbon and greenhouse gases in the 1990s. Spears includes...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...spot along the Jordan, the cave ceiling hung so low that "[p]assengers are obliged to double up, and lie on each other's shoulders, till this gap is passed" (414). Mandeville...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...and its auteur to garner several more golden statues. Just don't expect the drama to be confined to the movie itself. When McQueen went up to receive his honor at...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...writers gain from such a physical and/or imaginative movement. What do those writers or thinkers "beyond" gain from this movement? The book lays "out the myriad ways the 'South of...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...
Congregation
...of cleanup, my brother sat on the stoop and watched. He watched the ambulances speed by, the police cars; watched for the looters who'd come each day to siphon gas...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...had started beautiful blue, sunny clear and crisp as thousands gathered by in front of Gallier Hall St. Charles. The great man of the streets, Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen was...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...join in a game of cards. They did not engage in gambling games, and so they refused. However, they agreed to back the neighbor, who was "handy with cards." The...
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
Janet Powell, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005. Located north of Oak Ridge and about thirty miles northwest of Knoxville, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm was built in the 2000s as...