American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...New England told by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx in her 2016 novel, Barkskins. The subject of a 2020 dramatic series streaming on the National Geographic channel, Proulx's book portrays...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...of fertilizer to the aquifer. This has been going on longer than the impact of the sea level rise. I wasn’t aware of the sea level rise until 2014, but...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...buildings with hand-stenciled and freehand advertising for local businesses. Such work suggests that small-business advertising can be a collective endeavor, relying on neighborhood talent and artistic vision. About the Photographer...
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...truck, March 19, 2010. Photograph by Flickr user Michael Minter. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Curlers, December 26, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user Loren Kerns. Creative Commons license CC...
The State House Aflame 1833
Fire can burn brands on a slave's skin as he changes hands like cattle. And chattel slavery in a capital city is as old as fire and man. Milledgeville's no...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
...such nights, because old as I am I'll still do what they refuse to, and soon I'm driving out of Marshall headed north, most often toward Shelton Laurel, toward some...
Off-Season
...for fall. We settled in for the long freeze. You ate ridicule and haste. We never were the same, until spring when the fields reclaimed us as their own and...