Just as Sure
...Couldn't deny they shared faces. We buried Daddy in '53. They finished the dam, backed up the Oconee that year to make power. They made a lake, changed the town....
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...Windsor, Ohio, in the far northeastern corner of the border state, near Lake Erie. He was indentured as a servant from his childhood until he turned twenty-one, working in brutal...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...The farmers bred them for size and taste and texture and profit. They swam around in that little man-made lake and waited for the chopping block and the flash-frozen package....
Chattahoochee (excerpt)
...wallow, I can almost see the bottom of the lake, the black bass diving, dividing the darkness in the feathery tissue of its gills, as curl after curl rises from...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...they started in a slight breeze off the lake, the many and patient sails, I could see in those motions a little of the world that owns me — and...
Julius Hartman
...the natural beauty of this restful spot. "During the summer a beautiful lake has been constructed, covering about four acres, and it will be added to during the fall, and...
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...the Bundren family itself, As I Lay Dying is Faulkner's most experimental page-turner. Actors Logan Marshall-Green, Tim Blake Nelson, Danny McBride, and James Franco in an excerpt from Franco's adaptation...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
The Great South From 1873–74, towards the end of Reconstruction, journalist Edward King travelled the former Confederacy attempting to unpack the meaning of "the Great South" (1875) for largely northern...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...powerful numbers like "South Carolina (Barnwell)," a blistering critique of the construction of the Savannah River nuclear plant in 1975, Scott-Heron directed his listeners' attention to new political battlefields and...