Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...SECTION 1. The United States shall create a series of commons communities, each designed to include a specified number of households within a larger landscape that will be managed by...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
The dual attraction of New Orleans. From Katie Gillett, The Post-Grad Hipster's Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities, 2011. Since I left New Orleans for good in 2007, I hear more...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...universe in a forthcoming Brotherman comic book to be released later this year. For more information on Brotherman comics and how to access related MARBL materials, visit the MARBL website. ...
Remnants of Flannery
...on the Instagram feeds of some friends of mine who visited Andalusia and the Central State mental hospital recently, and the parallel, vicarious visit I had in my head as...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...of people from the Jesuit plantations compiled in preparation for the sale in 1838. Census by Fr. Ashby. Courtesy of the Georgetown Slavery Archive, Georgetown University. Visit the archive for...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...currently serving as visiting assistant professor in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory. Steve also works as a videographer for the forthcoming website "The Mother Nature Network."...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...sunset rivers of hope where the worst of us, the very worst of all, might find a seventh chance. Heaven And yet I don't want not to believe in, little...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...charged and convicted in 1923 of assault with the intent to murder. Gault and a male accomplice had stolen a car and brutally beaten the driver, "a deliberate and wanton...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...persistence." Hundreds of scientists have contributed to the development of WWF's Conservation Science Program and identified over 800 distinct terrestrial ecoregions across the globe.1Robert G. Bailey, Description of the Ecoregions...
Dirty Little Story
Essay Map of Fish Trap Hollow and northeastern Mississippi, 2012. ©OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. The visitors are from Virginia, a state that simply sounds clean. There are two young children and a...