Editors
...1865–1920 (University of Georgia Press, 1980). He is also editor of The New Regionalism (University Press of Mississippi, 1997) and Religion in the South (University Press of Mississippi, 1985), as...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...work that she views the language that she writes as if she saw her pages from the air, as if "from an airplane."3William Carlos Williams's pioneering essay, "The Work of...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research explores the...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1996). We need more work that takes the connections between corporations and major, national environmental groups...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
Review By the middle decades of the nineteenth century, the cause of worldwide abolition was riding high. Nearly a half century had passed since revolutionary fervor put slavery on a...
The Border South
...geopolitics of the sectional crisis. In the eighteenth century the South's borders were not a subject of either concern or observation, and identities were shaped more around states than regions....
Finding Media
...helping authors find usable photos, video, and audio clips. This is not always an uncomplicated task: discerning which media are in the public domain or eligible for fair use can...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...deployed in the interest of preserving and furthering self-determination. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, she explains, the Choctaws "laid the foundations of the political rhetoric and strategies that they would...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...the sacred fires that centered each town in the eighteenth century to engagement with the federal government's so-called "civilization" policy in the early nineteenth century, to the valorization of blood...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...pleasurable aspects of living in what some contemporary anthropologists and political theorists call a “shatter zone.” Landscape, Winter's Bone, 2010. The term “shatter zone” originated in nineteenth-century geology, to mean...