Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...of The Indian Heritage of America and many other important books about Native Americans. Snyder was there and when he found out I was from South Carolina, he smiled and...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Crown, 2001), Callaloo, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (Warner/Aspect, 2000), Indiana Review, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts...
Brushes with War
...Press, 2010), 3-10, 20-27. On the Northern teachers in the Sea Islands during wartime, see Willie Lee Rose, Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill,...
Whiskey and Geography
...became far and away the primary grain of the Appalachians as well as the main ingredient for the liquor produced there. The corn varieties—called Indian corn by most—developed by the...
Grave of James D. Lynch, Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, 2012
...to a white father and black mother in Baltimore, Maryland, Lynch was trained as a minister at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire, and then preached in Galena, Indiana until the Civil War. After...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...a violent past: the violence of the Civil War and the "Indian" wars before that; the violence inflicted on the environment starting from the time of industrialization; the violence surrounding...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...the British West Indies in 1833 increased US proslavery paranoia. Most planters believed Britain's plan of gradual, compensated emancipation would destroy West Indian economy and society. They also worried about...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
FOR ALL THE CRACKER PACKIN' GIRLS fourteen, I’m packin’ crates Fairmont Foods--Cary, NC only mixed-blood "Indian blonde" girl around only factory workside worker not black all of us under white...
The US South in Global Contexts
...McPherson "Wal-Mart Goes Global" Part 5: Dr. Barbara Ellen Smith "Rethinking Southern Communities" Part 6: Jamie Winders "Latino Migration and Nashville, Tennessee" Part 7: Eric Gray Anderson "Framing Indian Removal"...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...built upon hyper-speculative lending and building. (top left) Red ruts and black rubber; (top middle) Tenuous; (top right) Playing Indian; (bottom left) Developer's flag; (bottom right) Carpenter's level and sun...