Gulf Coast highway, Orange Beach, Alabama, 2006
Cypress swamp, Galloway, Arkansas, 2010
Substantiation
And the way the jury chose to believe the ridiculous stories of the defense. . . —Mamie Till, 1955 . . .with truth absent, hypocrisy and myth have flourished. ....
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...volume, then, represent not merely ways to think about the US South but also ways of thinking into and through and beyond it. The question at issue has evolved from...
How I Shed My Skin
Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks to...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...the Forsyth and Son Grocery on the Birmingham Highway, Route 202, about five miles west of Anniston, one attacker hurled a firebomb into the bus. The riders trapped inside the...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...site above McRoberts, Kentucky, 2005. The Old Road had once been the only way to Charleston, before the four-lane highway — still new to Lydde — went in. They wound...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...or Bayou and later left as young adults for educational and career opportunities. The act of photography for them provides a way to return home, to recover the memories and...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...a spring but sink into which trees and highway, bank and fields are sipped away to minuteness. All split on the present then merge in stretched perspective, radiant in reverse,...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...and Indianans for the most part found ways of avoiding conflict. "Because the Ohio River was a shared space," Salafia writes, "a highway that united residents and connected them to...