The Boatloads
...like the print of a rubber stamp, rough from reuse. At the bank of the river, hoary old Charon can barely keep up. Each day he has more trips to...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...and riddled them with bullets. It was the first triple lynching in the state since 1888, and the second lynching in Rowan County in just four years. In 1902, the...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...late cartoonist Doug Marlette appropriated the image for a comic-strip character called "the Rev. Will B. Done," but the humor eventually wore thin, as did the friendship that had developed...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...the "peculiar institution" and often prompted observers to come to terms with their own attitudes toward the human cargo they witnessed. It was a trip on the Ohio in 1841...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...an 8x10 wooden view camera with a tripod. I use this because of its ability to render detail and a sense of place. The 8x10 sheets of film give me...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...the 1960s and 1970s, activists promoted a related golden-age vision of egalitarian pastoralism in pre-industrial Appalachia, which they contrasted with the ugliness of strip mining, black lung disease, and other...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...mayor who bought the ladies' favors with river quartz, maybe east from some trip west to see or returning north from New Orleans or just lost in those years after...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...through George Eliot's Daniel Deronda. It was worth the nine-hundred-page trip, largely for Eliot's foray into Jewish cultural politics in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and for her...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...trip to Alabama was the five-month-old strike, called by the United Mine Workers of America, of over a thousand workers in Tuscaloosa County. They took a big pay cut four...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...Lomax/Zora Neal Hurston Field Trip of 1935 . . . As Described by Alan [Lomax] to Stetson Kennedy," Zora Neale Hurston Box 1, Stetson Kennedy Papers, uncataloged, n.d., George A....