1108 Dynamite Hill
...held and have endured, with the scars of attempted murders visible on the bricks. The opportunity to hear Jeff Drew's story is a recent development. After Birmingham's 2013 commemoration, Drew...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...is more recently formed and dynamically shifting. Modern ecosystems include extensive salt marshes with tidal creeks, beaches, maritime forests, back-dune meadows, grasslands, and a few human-made freshwater ponds. Erosion occasionally...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...sugar, and coffee that fed the Atlantic economy.1Recent work on the relationship between slavery and capitalism has emphasized the vitality of slavery during the nineteenth century; see Walter Johnson, River of...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...the only works in the collection created by African Americans, works which were acquired recently or entered the collection accidentally. The boxes are laid out as a rough timeline based...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...of canal dredging and pipeline laying throughout coastal wetlands in the 1950s, to the recent expansion and setbacks of offshore extraction. While the book devotes most of its attention to...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...year, with most precipitation during the hurricane season (May–September). Hurricanes have rarely affected the Georgia barrier islands until recently, when Ossabaw was hit by Hurricane Matthew (2016), then later Hurricane...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...canonical non-Native South, the post-southern non-Native South, and the most recent manifesto-driven incarnation, the New (but still pretty much non-Native) South. Instead, I argue that the South before the South...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...public domain. As the Indian government's recent efforts to regulate that country's maps makes clear, maps are not neutral documents. A declaration form for entry into India distributed to passengers...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...public has become more aware in recent years, particularly since the Yellowstone fires of 1988, of the importance of fire and fire management in forested areas. But historically, the subject...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...2011 by The University of Georgia Press. Other recent poetry and prose books include The Dead Father Poems (Horse & Buggy Press, 1999), The Best of the Kudzu Telegraph (Hub...