Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...wall, but the owners booked beach music bands because people still wanted to dance the shag. John says the leather shop he ran sold rolling paper under the counter, but...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...the mountain and now at the top edge, was the familiar jutting rock of Fallam Point. "Is Montefalco totally gone?" Earl Dotter, Oldhouse Branch Refuse Valley Fill Impoundment, Enterprise Mining...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...American use of the bottomland hardwood forest presumably did not endanger the natural variety of the land or its capacity for self-renewal. Much of the Native American use of timber...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
The State House Aflame 1833
...different. It's twelve noon, and the assembly's just adjourned; the State House is aflame, and water won't reach the heights a slave can. Sam's a bondsman. The roof, the roof,...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...history projects about underrepresented race, class, gender, and labor histories in the South Carolina Lowcountry and the interconnected Atlantic World. This inclusive approach to Lowcountry history promotes greater awareness and audience...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...Art in 2010 and includes over fifty photographic portraits and audio interviews with New Orleans rappers, DJs, producers, photographers, label owners, promoters, record store personnel, journalists, and other parties involved...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...place. Absent such historicization, the story of immigration to the South will remain incoherent not simply or even primarily because it is ongoing but also because it does not possess...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...a deliberately disruptive way." Interestingly, Gray uses this description of the genre in a book called Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism (2000) and...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...young migrant worker had raped a white woman, the mob doused him in oil and burned him alive. Anti-American riots broke out across Mexico following news of the lynching and...