Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...and even during the Great Depression in the 1930s, but Jean's interest in photography waned. Sometime in the early 1940s he sold his interest in the company to his brother...
Finding Media
...1923, like this image from Lewis Hine, is in the public domain. Fortunately for us, work produced by the US government is also in the public domain. This satellite image...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
Introduction About the Author Laurel Horton is a folklorist and quilt researcher. A native of Kentucky, she earned a B.A. in English and an M.S. in Library Science from the...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...my motivation. Why was I here? What right did I have to assume that I could represent in my documentary work a culture I knew little about? I was sometimes...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...political imagination. His insistence on detailing social injustices never precluded him from illuminating the South's importance as the incubator of his radical political vision. Scott-Heron's indebtedness to the South and...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...is set and was filmed: language, imagery, music, and casting. It was shot on location in two Missouri Ozark counties, Taney and Christian. Taney County sits right on the Missouri-Arkansas...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Yet it is a mistake to treat southern gospel as wholly synonymous with white gospel. Nor is its cultural function exclusively or even primarily of scholarly interest for what it...
The Change
...spoke a word to you about it, I knew and I kept it to myself to this day and time and I never let on until I left on...
Off-Season
...a back hoe, first time I got to frame, and when I swung the hammer full leverage, three pounds drove in sixteenpennys straight. In six weeks, I made foreman. Just...
Antietam
...but that's a lie. Sometimes, at night, I feel the battlefield moving inside of me. Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September...