Excerpt from James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964)
...is our concept of Christianity: and this raging plague has the power to destroy every human relationship. I once took a short trip with Medgar Evers to the backwoods of...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
..."what is southern studies studying?" to "what does southern studies do?" As the essayists in this volume strip away the mystifying assumption of difference or otherness, they show us what...
The Bulletin—September 21, 2012
...sea bass and red snapper are costing Southeast and Gulf Coast states nearly one hundred million dollars in combined losses resulting from fewer fishing trips for those species. The past...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
...to reach on foot. During their spring 2015 trip, Page and Martin found places where alligators walk from their dens through nearby salt marshes, then return. Rather than trying to...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...amount of guilt associated with that choice.” Robbins’s regular trips back to the Delta during the making of these photographs allowed her to maintain ties with the family that remained...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...our way back to the bus a boy tripped me and I fell— skidding hard along the ground, gravel lodging in the skin of my palms. I cried the whole...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...attorney, the Ashe monument seemed long overdue. Yet, The Richmond Times Dispatch argued that putting Ashe on Monument Avenue, with Lee, Jackson, Stuart, and Maury, "would strip Ashe's memory of...
Whiskey and Geography
...single packhorse profitable, whereas grain alone or most any other farm product could barely pay for the trip. On the western Pennsylvania and Virginia frontiers, whiskey sold for twenty-five cents...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...who seems largely to have made the trip as a mission of campaign bridge building. The Clinton whom Toni Morrison had called the nation's "first Black President" sought to parlay...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...Greece and Virginia, blurring the categories of “return,” “home,” and “country." Even if they did not make return trips, migrants’ ties to their home countries frequently remained strong and have...