The Black Belt
...Georgia and the Carolinas in an epidemic of "Alabama Fever." Following the forced removal of Native Americans, the Black Belt emerged as the core of a rapidly expanding plantation area....
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland." King's empathetic analysis brought to light many of...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...a geographic fantasy, or (in Duck's terminology) "the nation's region." Top, cover to Leigh Anne Duck's The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism (Athens: University of Georgia Press,...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
..."catalyst [and] economic juggernaut for US development."1Pellom McDaniels III, interview with author, December 14, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. Detail of 19th-century passbook. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...band director stationed at Fort McPherson, Georgia—explicitly framed his singing school as teaching the style of Sacred Harp singing practiced in West Georgia in the early 1970s. Other singing teachers...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
Since 2005, a group of activists have annually reenacted the lynching of Roger and Dorothy Malcom and George and Mae Murray Dorsey, murdered on Moore’s Ford Bridge in Monroe, Georgia, on...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Trethewey discusses “Signs, Oakvale, Missisippi, 1941” and “Flounder” as well as landscapes in Gulfport and New Orleans Part 3: Trethewey discusses “Monument,” “Elegy for the Native...
Besieged Terrain
...of The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South (University of Georgia Press, 1999). Thurmond has published numerous essays and interviews on environmental subjects and is currently working on...
Single Centers of Creation?
...a post baccalaureate honors in biology from Georgia State University between 1992 and 1994. Currently she teaches nature journaling and scientific artistry at schools, universities, and museum workshops throughout Georgia....
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...rising tide on Cabretta Beach over the course of about five hours provides an example of tide-dominated processes on the Georgia coast. 1:22 – This is an overhead view of...