Good-Bye to All That?
...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
... by four and a half pounds of sunlight. Each second. Try to imagine that. No wonder deep shade...
The Liminal Site
...is worth while," they wrote, "also to provide parks of the mountain type—places where people can climb, can enjoy the wild woods, and can enjoy that sense of freedom and...
Six Yellow Stanzas
...black sparks fly, a hive of bumblebees which hum at your body and do not sting. 6. Egg yolk, crocus, buttercup, butter, dandelion, sunflower, sunbeam, sun, chicken fat, legal pads,...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
..."least of these" earned for Campbell the praise of a broad range of individuals, from former President Jimmy Carter and country music icon Tom T. Hall to neighbors on his...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Country Road, Early Spring, Near Marks, Quitman County, Mississippi, photograph by Maude Schuyler Clay © 1997. See more at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery. Country Road, Winter, Near Marks, Quitman County, Mississippi, photograph by Maude Schuyler...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...to expand its services. The brothers stayed on the cutting edge of new technology, adding Cirkut cameras to make panoramic photographs, aerial photography, and even motion pictures to their repertoire....
Sonic Zora in Florida
...Kennedy, she collected "fabulous folksongs, tales, and legends, possibly representing gleanings from days long gone by." She also drafted reports on the music of local church services and filed an...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...Composed Exclusively For the Under Ground Rail Road (1854), written for abolitionists ferrying enslaved people to freedom. The Emancipation Car includes forty-three poems, all meant to be sung to then-popular...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...Depression did more than spur the rise of the modern American regulatory state; it also saw the federal government take some ownership of the country's historical and cultural memory. After...