From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...community members petitioned for its inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. In 2005, a small plaque marking the events of 1963 was placed on the building....
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...2001 Paterson Poetry, and Outlandish Blues (Wesleyan University Press, 2003). Jeffers also has won the 2002 Julia Peterkin Award for Poetry and awards from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
Review To borrow a line from Joel and Ethan Coen's seminal slacker classic, The Big Lebowski, James Franco "draws a lotta water in this town."1 If you don't believe me,...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...a thoughtful and well-written and researched monograph. About the Author Gary R. Mormino holds the Frank E. Duckwall professorship in Florida history at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg....
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...the opera house, so that an otherwise all too typical lynching became national, and even international, news. The story, for instance, appeared in a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, along...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
Essay The sesquicentennial of the Civil War catches the nation in the middle of a conversation. Evidence about Americans’ opinions is contradictory and confusing. On one hand, public commemorations show...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
Review "I don't need a map to tell me where I am today." —Mike Cooley The Drive-By Truckers have always done their best and most arresting work about place. They...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...is one of the most intimate threads joining the humans and animals that cross the screen, especially as these bind Ree to Sonny and Ashlee. Even the Dolly children’s pets...