Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...as symbiotic southern genres, even if only contrapuntally. The plantation romances were written partly as answers to Northern media’s images, yet it is also striking to note some thematic coding...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...The Selected Shepherd, you present a generally equal number from each of his six collections, with a little bit more from Angel, Interrupted. What were you looking for as you...
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
Janet Powell, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005. Located north of Oak Ridge and about thirty miles northwest of Knoxville, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm was built in the 2000s as...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...continental United States. From their arrival on the banks of North America's greatest river and its tributaries, European and American settlers realized that economic development in the flood-prone region would...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...this endeavor is Peel's manuscript collection. Originally from North Carolina, Peel moved to Atlanta in 1976 where, as a person with HIV, he experienced first-hand both the devastating effects of...
Mississippi Delta
...a planter elite from the early nineteenth century. The Hamptons of South Carolina, one of the South's most famous and successful families, bought land in the Delta in the 1840s,...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...descent. With collections numbering in excess of ten million items including books, manuscripts, correspondence, personal and professional papers of individuals, archived records of Africana institutions and organizations, as well as...
Gravestones in Chester County, South Carolina and Wythe County, Virginia
...Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Virginia, August 1978. From Daniel Patterson, The True Image (read an essay excerpted from the book). Used with permission of the University of North Carolina Press....
The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
...discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living in and intellectually engaging with the US South. Without further ado, The Bulletin. The recently passed amendment to North Carolina’s state constitution...