Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...the Sons of Temperance, the Washington Temperance Society, the Good Order League, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the Anti-Saloon League. Interesting characters make unexpected appearances. The author explains how...
Bodies and Souls
...our values as a society if we allow so many people to fall through the cracks? Bodies and Souls follows the work of one woman who has dedicated her life...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
In Search of Justice Mother Jones once said, "There is no peace in West Virginia, because there is no justice [in West Virginia]." This is as true today as when...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...the buzzards from cheatin the wurms." "Oh," says the gentleman, "you have been helping to bury a woman." "That’s hit, by golly!," replies Sut. "Now why the devil can't I...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...young migrant worker had raped a white woman, the mob doused him in oil and burned him alive. Anti-American riots broke out across Mexico following news of the lynching and...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...photographs of his wife, family members, and his new neighborhood of Virginia Highlands. In time, however, Simone shifted his focus to rarely photographed areas of urban Atlanta. A Woman Has...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...social terrain shaped one woman's life. Mary Ann Helam was born in Kentucky. Like thousands of other slaves during the 1830s, she was forced into the Second Middle Passage that...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...Rock and roll songs often sing about leaving town, but Cooley has made a living writing coming-back-home songs like “One of These Days” and “Marry Me.” Here, a Pulaski woman...
Lafayette, Louisiana images
Lafayette, Louisiana: House on West Vermilion Street This house is owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette. Cajun Bail Bonds Lafayette is often called the capital of Acadiana, that...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...is an indigenous Haitian religion, closely related to West African Vodun, that draws from multiple West African religions, in addition to Roman Catholicism, European mysticism, and freemasonery. Most practitioners of...