Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...compare interstate and intrastate migrants with urban hires? A Slave-Coffle passing the Capitol, ca. 1815. Illustration by unknown artist. Originally published in Cullen and Howard's Popular History of the United...
The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War
...be delivered at Harvard University in 2007, and on a history of the United States from 1840 to 1900, to be published in the Penguin history of the United States....
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Americas. Some half-million enslaved arrived at forty-one documented sites in the United States. At these arrival ports a significant portion of American history began. Relying principally upon information from Voyages:...
The Change
...the petals with our bare, calloused, hands and twisting downward, quick, hard, only one time, snapped them off. Before edgers and herbicides took what they call weeds, when we walked...
Making History
...with lentils, flash bombs, lo-fi, hi-speed. Somewhere is a petition I should be signing. Somewhere a parakeet is driving a tractor, and I am missing it. A pair of scissors...
Sweep
The two Garnett brothers who run the Shell station here, who are working separately just now, one hunched under the rear axle of Skippy Smith's Peterbilt tractor, the other humming...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...of pasture caved in by an underground spring. I remember when he held my new-born, petting the mewling baby like a cat while a delphic Sibyl watched from the wall,...
"Little Switzerland"
...amusement. Until recent years Atlanta has had no parks, and of course our citizens could not enjoy the blessings that come through them. Now there is Grant's park, Peter's park,...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...2012 New York Times article noted that "the urban coyote problem has come to Atlanta at last." In response to increased coyote sightings and several coyote/pet skirmishes, the Druid Hills...