Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...120mm film. What I liked most about the Holga was its less-than-automatic approach to winding through the frames. With a half turn, one could capture images on top of each...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...show how the passage of time marks this wooden structure and its immediate surroundings. Lined up horizontally on a short wall, the shots evoke the single frames of a strip...
Piedmont Blues
...sake of clarity, this essay defines the Piedmont blues region as spanning from Danville, Virginia to Atlanta, Georgia, running approximately 325 miles from northeast to southwest and being seventy-five to...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...reenactors were white, a number of African American reconstructed regiments, such as the Massachusetts 54th USCT, regularly participate in these events. The reenactment phenomenon has proliferated globally to include battles...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...in this piece by Sommer Mathis writing in The Atlantic Cities, about the importance of cities in deciding the election. Metropolitan areas in the US South and elsewhere in the interior...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...life in a motor vehicle crash or accident. One commemorates the loss of a beloved pet. Tom Zarilli, Wilting plush toys, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006. These memorials remind us of the...
The Chesapeake Bay
...Bay," is similarly recent, perhaps only several thousand years old. But, 10,000 years ago the sea level was 325 lower than today and the Atlantic coastline stood 60 miles offshore...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...in whole or in part, in The Habit of Being, Ed. Sally Fitzgerald, 1979. Betty Hester, a native of Atlanta who worked as a secretary and office clerk when she...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...sides were preoccupied with drawing up maps, building observation towers, constructing battle lines, ordering columns, and framing engagements—that is, with visualizing the impending battle. However, the first casualty of the...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...the usual linear settler/colonial paradigm that frames the subject and to instead address long and recurring cycles of Cherokee dislocation, movement, and coalescence. The problems that beset any diasporic people—a...