Putting up Beans
...filled with great leaves of tobacco, green as beans. Though soon to be gold and brown cured. Now nowhere near Winston or Salems. Not even close to American Spirit. More...
Fort Scott newspapers
...were there arrayed in holiday attire, giving evidence of the virgin excellence of our soil. The industry and intelligence of a people who have combined to a greater degree than...
Failed Memory Exercise
...a block of stores Like a test for names, beginning with the P.O., By which, in late autumn, the loaded wagons came, The colts wheeling behind the great sober mares,...
Georgia Postcard
...spring, a spreading rash, blush. III. Kin: Sparta, Georgia 106-year-old Great-Aunt Kate calls it "the dry grin," what white people give you when they want you to think you are...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
Presentation Responses About the Speakers Kirk Savage is a professor of art history and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively on public monuments within the theoretical context...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...sinking the USS Housatonic, sowing great consternation, even though the entire crew drowned at their stations. This experiment in underwater warfare was not repeated. Smith's epilogue revisits General Sherman's March,...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...under greater environmental attack and is suffering a drug addiction epidemic. Those changes, though, I understand very well, because of my research and experiences and because of addiction problems in...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...and designed to engineer inequality. This included the "Great Outdoors." In Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South, a fascinating, deeply researched, and richly illustrated...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...and Austin with their nationally renowned research universities. Sociologically, it is important to explore Wuthnow's work as an exercise in theoretical synthesis and theory testing—the book's greatest strength and liability....
Zircon
Poem Zircon When my great-uncles dug for zircons on the mountainside and on the pasture hill a hundred years ago they'd no idea the little crystal bit they sought would...