The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...New County Railroad and Distance Map of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina" [c. 1875] Detail from South Carolina Map. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. [c. 1892] Detail from "South...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...the daughter of a catatonic mother and a meth-cooking father who has not only disappeared with the law hot on his tail, but—Ree learns at the beginning of the film—has...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Burying Ground until after the Civil War.3The land was purchased from Thomas Beall, who had inherited extensive property from his grandfather Ninian Beall (1630–1717). In the early nineteenth century, Beall...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Atlanta's, but many other municipal codes are silent. A number of cities, towns, and counties are facing an unexpected ambiguity: if there is nothing on the books about chickens, is...
Talk Radio, D.C.
Leave fatback and a copper penny on a wound 'til it draw out the poison, 'til the penny turn green. Tobacco's what works on a bee-sting but for poison ivy...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...State University and a member of the Richards Civil War Era Center. Rothera's dissertation analyzes civil wars and reconstructions in the United States, Mexico, and Argentina in the period 1860–1880....
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...the Jindal administration is helping Big Oil rip off a cash-strapped state," Southern Studies, May 7, 2015, http://www.southernstudies.org/2015/05/looting-louisiana-how-the-jindal-administration-is.html. Even some oil and gas firms thought themselves to be under-regulated: "A 1979...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
July 25, 2015 saw two competing events on the roads of northeast Georgia. Civil rights activists marked the sixty-ninth anniversary of the Moore's Ford lynching, the killing of four young...