The Border South
...of a border began to take shape. G. Woolworth Colton, Detail from Map of the United States of America, Original version available at The Library of Congress Maps Collection. Historians,...
Writing Appalachia
...and His Homeland (1921); Henry Glassie, Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States (1968); Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov, The Upland South: The Making of an American Folk...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...the speech of Hon. Henry R. Jackson of Savannah, Ga., (Atlanta: E. Holland, 1891). The last documented shipment of enslaved Africans brought to the United States was disembarked at Mobile,...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...allows businesses and providers to refuse service to LGBTQ individuals should such service violate "sincerely held religious beliefs." In refusing to hear the cases of Barber v. Bryant and Campaign...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...to governments answerable to working-class voters. That attitude is still embalmed in the bevy of quasi-public appointive boards and commissions that constitute much of the governance in modern-day New Orleans....
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...highlight. For a movie that seems to have "the business" buzzing, this was a decidedly understated debut, which makes sense given the subtlety with which Linklater has emerged as one...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...spaces for job talks and self-improvement classes, and ubiquitous coffee shops and bars. These developments are creating new buzz about Atlanta's future. The Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, Georgia. Photograph courtesy of...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...classified by number. We heard the poetry in old names used by local fishermen and women perhaps because Stoops’ background includes an English degree, making him inclined to favor the...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...reservoirs of stereotypical abjection? Why summon inaccurate, dirty cliches about the hopeless lot of underclass blacks, Louisiana, and the marginal Southland, so blindly? I want to argue that these criticisms,...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...311–328. The largest public health cataclysm in a hundred years has put to the test assumptions, capacities, decisions, practices, and policies. In many ways, the United States has been found wanting,...