Elegy for the Native Guards
...the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Published: 10 June 2005 © 2005 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...of Oak Ridge and the accompanying laboratory, which employed eighty thousand at its peak (1, 17, 19). The authorized story of Oak Ridge's creation emphasizes the "myth of a peaceful and...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...Place of Tender Images: Paul Kwilecki's Four Decades of Photography of Decatur County, GA (forthcoming 2012) and Truths of the Matter: Traditions in Documentary Studies (forthcoming 2012). His photographs have...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...author, January 11, 2013. The home of Alma and Albert Hayward in the Woodlawn Heights subdivision of Collier Heights. Top, under construction in 1962, and bottom, May 17, 2015. Historic...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Helvétius, Œuvres Complètes, Vol. 1 (Paris: Lepetit, Editeur, 1777), 25. Author's translation. An abolitionist movement in the 1780s calls itself "Blood Sugar" on the ground that "sugar cane was fertilized...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...often "the prelude to creative effort."3Zora Neale Hurston to Carita Dogget Corse, December 3, 1938, in Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters (New York: Anchor, 2003), 417–418. By summer...
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...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...a number of improvements have taken place in the city. "Along the sweep of the nine-mile circle several attractive homes have been erected, and those who have not been in...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...his mind flooded with dozens of cases of FHA discrimination. For example, he observed that, since he moved to Elbert County in 1952, the number of black farmers fell from...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...Philip C. Kolin notes, at forty-seven, Trethewey is "the youngest writer to have a special issue [of the journal] focused on her achievements."1Philip C. Kolin, "Editor's Introduction: The Triple Crown,"...