Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...poorer farmers were content to raise crops each year and clear enough to do it all over again, and they were cautious in buying into the capital-intensive treadmill. While prosperous...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...The Southern Quarterly 50, no. 4 (Summer 2013): 5, http://www.usm.edu/southern-quarterly-literary-magazine/intros/504edintro.pdf. In an essay eulogizing the poet Seamus Heaney, Trethewey describes feeling a "calling to make sense of my South, with...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...Pass. The sheer number of oysters in one place was notable, however the history came from the laminated nametags accompanying each sampling of oysters. Rather than numeric codes in fine...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...pictures show the surfaces of the visible world, while black-and-white images reveal its structure, the way the world is put together — or, in this case, the ways it came...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...for?" In Florida, confusion over the voting eligibility of thousands of ex-felons has a number of interest groups involved in a campaign to clarify the voter rolls across the state....
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...address southern literature — the most important regional literature produced in twentieth-century America — I have tried here to flesh out one possible model of region in America, one possible...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...on the old cash crop. The rail network distributed cotton throughout and beyond the South and stimulated in Atlanta the growth of banks and brokerages, mills and factories. Atlanta was...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...on Highway 23, Upper Laurel, North Carolina. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Established in 1951 the café was bypassed by I-26 and soon abandoned by the owners. To comprehend the costs...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...our more civic engagement-oriented projects. We took some inspiration from Karen Halttunen, the former president of the American Studies Association, who called upon scholars to engage in what she called...
Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...