Brushes with War
...change with the decades. Our capacities for taking lives, and for saving them, seem to increase over time. But the combat artist seated with his sketchpad still looks very much...
Negotiating Black Identities
Video Part 2: Dr. Lacy outlines her sources, methods, and sites of analysis in Prince George's County, MD and Fairfax County, VA Part 3: Dr. Lacy explores the construction...
Local Color
...or at least something of their own roads not taken, in characters whose lives had remained more deeply rooted in place and community than their own. The political ramifications of...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...lived in major metropolitan areas, small towns, and rural communities, I did not initially realize that we had moved to "the suburbs." In my mind, Atlanta was one big mass...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...African democracy and now fear land appropriation, as happened in Zimbabwe. One rancher told of six generations of family buried on land where he grazes thousands of livestock. Doubtless, his...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...the water. He was needed in public meetings, standing in front of the people. Poor people live up and down this river. We work for years to buy a johnboat....
Bodies and Souls
...rural clinics affected everyday lives. Top, a patient has her blood pressure taken at the clinic in Jonestown, Bodies and Souls, 2005. Bottom, Sister Manette with a patient, Bodies and Souls,...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...1930s Lee's biographer and the editor of the Richmond News Leader, Douglas Southall Freeman, lived just a few blocks from the monument. Freeman placed Lee at the center of his...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...place to live, much less a place 'unmatched in quality,' and an additional fifty thousand live in public housing with seven thousand qualified applicants waiting to move in. "The world...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...catastrophe by any standard. Some 1,800 persons were killed outright. More than a million people were forced to relocate, many for the remainder of their lives. A city of 500,000...