Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...whether they are species grown by Benjamin Franklin or Gainey’s own grandmother. Gainey’s musings on figs (using scientific Latinate terms and discussing Western mythology) demonstrate his devotion to gardening as...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986 (2003). About Brett Gadsden Brett Gadsden is assistant professor of African American Studies at Emory University. He received his PhD in history from Northwestern University....
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...horrifying detail the guerrilla warfare that engulfed parts of western Virginia, and the formation of West Virginia is carefully explained. To its credit, the VHS invested considerable effort in the...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...was westward. Steel discusses the causes and consequences of migration into the Chattahoochee Valley and much of western Georgia in the decades leading to the first publication of The Sacred...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...Increasing numbers of cars, trolleys, buses, and taxis enabled movement between downtown and suburbs; rural and urban areas; "colored" and "white" areas; and cultural and domestic spheres. The city's growth...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket: Video and Essay Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket. A short video by Ben Harmon and Catalina McCormick, 2009. Individuals' experiences in the criminal...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...correlation between flooding and MTR operations. Many of us have witnessed this firsthand. During the devastating floods of the Summer of 2001, I felt helpless as family members and close...
The Black Belt
...Geologically, the region lies within the Gulf South's Coastal Plain in a crescent some twenty to twenty-five miles wide that stretches from eastern, south-central Alabama into northwestern Mississippi. The unusually...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...2006 far below fifty percent. Elsewhere in the country, only three states—New Mexico, California, and Oregon—had a majority of low-income students. Given recent trends, however, public schools in the western...
Mapping Souths
...this discovery." See "The Position and Course of the South," DeBow's Review of the Southern and Western States 2.2 (February 1851): 231. In reality, if North and South formed two...