Whiskey and Geography
...became far and away the primary grain of the Appalachians as well as the main ingredient for the liquor produced there. The corn varieties—called Indian corn by most—developed by the...
Grave of James D. Lynch, Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, 2012
...to a white father and black mother in Baltimore, Maryland, Lynch was trained as a minister at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire, and then preached in Galena, Indiana until the Civil War. After...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...West Indian, African, or African American mammy-sphinx, who could evoke any part of the global plantation South, made out of eight tons of confectionery sugar coated over a foam structure,...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
FOR ALL THE CRACKER PACKIN' GIRLS fourteen, I’m packin’ crates Fairmont Foods--Cary, NC only mixed-blood "Indian blonde" girl around only factory workside worker not black all of us under white...
The US South in Global Contexts
...McPherson "Wal-Mart Goes Global" Part 5: Dr. Barbara Ellen Smith "Rethinking Southern Communities" Part 6: Jamie Winders "Latino Migration and Nashville, Tennessee" Part 7: Eric Gray Anderson "Framing Indian Removal"...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...built upon hyper-speculative lending and building. (top left) Red ruts and black rubber; (top middle) Tenuous; (top right) Playing Indian; (bottom left) Developer's flag; (bottom right) Carpenter's level and sun...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...representatives of labor unions from across the country—longshoremen, flight attendants, municipal employees, as well as members of the United Mine Workers of America from West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
...is a professor of practice in the department of Environmental Sciences at Emory University. His publications include Life Traces of the Georgia Coast (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013). Michael Page...
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...