Editors
...Tim Crimmins, Georgia State University Jane Dailey, Johns Hopkins University William F. Danaher, The College of Charleston Leroy Davis, Emory University Susan V. Donaldson, The College of William and Mary...
Quilting Conversation
...assistant in Photography and Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum and managed web design, publications, and other media initiatives at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. She is...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
Review "I don't need a map to tell me where I am today." —Mike Cooley The Drive-By Truckers have always done their best and most arresting work about place. They...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...Church numbered among its congregants many enslaved persons. No traces of the Centenary Institute survive in today's Summerfield, other than its weathered and worn front steps, which can be just...
Besieged Terrain
...today. Site of a strip mine on the south-southeast border of Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy of Kentucky Heartwood. The technique used to get the coal, called mountain top...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...they had been terrorized into testifying falsely by the police.1Bob Herbert, "A Death in Destrehan," New York Times, February 1, 2007. Adam Turner, Gil Scott-Heron at the Regency Ballroom, San...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...watched the moon circle down. Mama sang a song to us often: “See the Man in the Moon. Mama gonna come back soon. But don’t you worry none. She won’t...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...that our worlds never fall apart, in taking the day-to-day for granted. We like to think we know better (“Here today, gone tomorrow,” and all that). Whatever we know doesn’t...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...the only Gullah-Geechee population on any Georgia barrier island, reside today in the Hog Hammock community. Although shrinking in size, Hog Hammock retains a distinctive culture and features a revival...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...transatlantic human trade and provide a means for addressing a painful and shameful American experience whose vestiges persist today. These ceremonies feature rituals incorporating representatives of African, Native American, Asian,...