Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...move too close to caricature to be humane, is an almost staggering talent for making deeply meaningful images. Mann, Christenberry, and Gowin are already well known and widely celebrated photographers....
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...years. In the affected region, cases of the worst stage of "black lung" disease have quadrupled since 1980. The report featured photographs from Earl Dotter's "Quiet Sickness" series documenting coal...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...a film show and a pre-recorded soundtrack. Before Michael took the stage, his sister Lynda Stipe, who wrote the songs, played bass while Michael and Lynda’s friend Linda Hopper sang....
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...Hall in Onllywyn, South Wales. The video recordings filmed between 1974 and 1976 in South Wales and Appalachia set the stage for John Gaventa's later work with the Highlander Research...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
Whiskey and Geography
...staged tax protests, and intimidated, even beat, revenue collectors. Tarring and feathering the revenuers was common. When the rebellion spread into northwestern Virginia and the rest of the mountain region,...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...used to think backwater meant remote or backward, out of date, a place of stagnant poverty. But found the term in history means across the mountain watershed where rivers run...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...day's newspaper told of how paramilitary and Protestant heritage groups that once staged violent parades now work on economic development as the foundation for reconciliation — rising standards of living...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...supported and sustained by the museum as a prop master, with works of art as the props to stage a particular portrait of society. Susan Harbage Page and Juan Logan,...
How I Shed My Skin
...students stage walkouts after a white teacher spouts racist slurs and a black teacher's job is threatened. But against elder white prophesies, desegregation doesn't incite an apocalypse. Students adjust, and...