I-26, Corridor of Change
...changes. (November 8, 2000. Approx. 1 1/2 hours. Streaming audio and transcription of interview. Source: Documenting the American South, Southern Oral History Program, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...of a number of "marked trails" of this era—would join existing local roads into a long-distance highway linking north and south. Not coincidentally, it would connect the metropolitan North with...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...centers on an American Indian who kneels before an enthroned Minerva—Roman goddess of wisdom, warfare, arts, trade, strategy, and commerce—and proffers a partially unscrolled map. Scenes of indigenous people offering...
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
...in the United States in the twentieth century, much of Faulkner's work centered on the fictional Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi. Sotheby's announced on March 28, 2013 that the prolific author's Nobel Prize...
"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
John Egerton, PDF of "Possum on Terrace," 1987. In 1985, "The Southern War Correspondents and Camp Followers Association" and "The Popham Seminar" held a joint meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, to...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
Essay Here’s for an expanding hope. —Oh-OK, “Brother,” 1982 Oh-OK, Furthermore What cover, DB Records, 1984. If you want to start an argument, just ask any 40- to 50-ish-year-old fan...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...land and wealth of the mountains for their own profit.1See Ronald D. Eller, Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982). During...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...E. Dydo with William Rice, Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises, 1923-34 [Evanston IL: Northwestern UP, 2003], 579 n. 48). That it was something between a clerical error and congressional...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...of these colorful hand-painted signs speaks of persistent creativity and the spirit of small business. The sheer volume of these signs in the city affirms the popularity of this mode...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
Video About the Speaker Born in 1933 to Irish immigrant parents, Constance Curry grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. She graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, where she...