COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...of Uncertainty: Early Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic," Journal of Risk Research 23, no. 7–8 (2020): 880–887. The story of the nation's COVID-19 plight is as much an unfolding epistemological...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...plantations were responding to abolitionist rhetoric with idealistic portrayals of the master class, embellished with usually silent slaves in the background. The slave narrative, conversely, is viewed as having its...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...memorials, for the most part, people maintain their personal practices of memorial creation. Roadside memorials have faced a number of legal challenges, as state department of transportation officials and legislative...
The Change
...year dusters sprayed malathion over our clustered bodies, perspiring while we primed bottom lugs, those ground level leaves of tobacco, and it clung to us with black tar so...
Little Rock, Arkansas images
Little Rock, Arkansas: View from Pedestrian Bridge Seen from the La Harpe Boulevard pedestrian overpass are Arkansas's Old State Capitol (white building in center), the Peabody Hotel (left background), and...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...Amberg. Workers spreading erosion control netting around the bridge abutments on the bridge over US 23 at Sams Gap, Sams Gap, NC, 2003. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Hikers on...
Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance
...and filled with all the devices of popular amusements, which will delight grown-ups and children, Ponce de Leon, the playground of Atlanta, will be thrown open to pleasure-loving patrons, Monday...
Julius Hartman
...of his life. "The beautifying of Ponce de Leon park. "There are thirty acres of ground out there that present grander possibilities for improvement than any place in this country....
Substantiation
...him off near Glendora, never seen again. They say Ain't it like a negro to swim the river with a gin fan round his neck. They say it was hog's...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...the unvarnished tradition of remembering—which has long competed with the whitewashed tradition, though rarely on equal ground—is superior" (6). Among the grim realities of slavery in Charleston, as summarized by...