The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...to be impoverished, illiterate, and landless."2Wilma A. Dunaway, The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700–1860 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 21. Steven Stoll's...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...to get back to making pictures. I had been washing my hands incessantly as I drove from North Carolina to Mississippi, always keeping sanitizer close, trying to puzzle out how...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
...& A. Topics include how Lawrence’s correspondence inform her writing Acknowledgements Many thanks to Northwestern State University of Louisiana's Watson Memorial Library Cammie G. Henry Research Center for the materials from...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...
Palomares Bajo
...Air Force dropped nuclear bombs on Spain. By accident. In early 1966, at the height of the Cold War, a B-52—en route from the Goldsboro, North Carolina, base to the...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...common, fluid border in the geographic regions of South Texas and Northern Mexico. Rio Grande and Pecos Railway Company, Detail of a map of the Rio Grande and Pecos Railway...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...where Africans first arrived in North America, is neither the actual place of Africans' first arrival in Virginia (Point Comfort, Hampton, Virginia, is the actual site) or in North America...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Virginia regarding their stated policies towards memorials. Legal and accepted views of memorials by state are much like their regulations...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...Pass. The sheer number of oysters in one place was notable, however the history came from the laminated nametags accompanying each sampling of oysters. Rather than numeric codes in fine...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...decades of my life, I called the northeast Georgia mountains home. For most of the years since, home has been Decatur, Georgia, a small city east of downtown Atlanta. Here...