Zircon
...measured rate. The zircon lasts when mother rocks around have crumbled, worn away to sand. It keeps the fingerprints of isotopes from clouds of the original primordial dust, right here...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...of the Historical Maps of Alabama Collection, University of Alabama Department of Geography. Via Wikimedia Commons. This 1818 map shows the states of North Carolina and South Carolina, with new...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...They provide our readers with references to additional resources, allowing them to learn more. An additional advantage is that Wikipedia is not behind a pay-wall. Sadly, many good sources accessible...
Bricking the Church
...Medal from the Daughters of the American Revolution. Recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Arts Council,...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...and green were produced by early chemical dyes. Before the development of aniline dyes in 1859, all fabric dyes were produced from animal, vegetable, or mineral products. The brownish-red and...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...this transformative event that gave rebirth to a nation. He tells a compelling story, based on diaries, letters, and other archival material. A number of questions remain unanswered, however. What...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...have become permanent inmates of a carceral landscape: mute and nearly mummified human sacrifices to a commodity-producing global machinery. Damian Alan Pargas does not quibble with the argument that slaveholding...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
..."musical color line." They transformed what existed in aural practice as "a fluid complex of sounds and styles" into a "series of distinct genres associated with particular racial and ethnic...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...on specific actions or policies of the school board (79). This occurred, too, alongside Wake County's own political revolution (27). The county had consistently backed Democratic gubernatorial and presidential candidates...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...Jones talks with Natasha Trethewey about the subjects of their poetry. The conversation includes: how writers find ways to get beyond their own experiences; psychological exile from regional homeland; Jones's...