No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...of male vulnerability and heartache. Nelson's "You Left a Long, Long Time Ago" tells of the painful dissolution of a romantic union. Jennings's "Slow Movin' Outlaw" portrays the fragility of...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...its glistening Atlanta laboratories. Like the war, however, the MCWA did not last forever. The long-awaited peace in 1945 required its own set of reorganizational efforts, leading to the dissolution...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...decades of memories. In Chicago, for example, longtime residents Deverra Beverly and Beatrice Jones, who feared their presence would be forever erased, supported the establishment of the National Public Housing...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...his long pilgrimage out of the depression-wracked Deep South, died Monday, June 3, 2013, in Nashville from complications following a stroke. He was eighty-eight. His career-long commitment to the biblically-remembered...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...sectional crisis came to a head in 1861, the Ohio River Valley did not prove to be the seam along which the nation split. A long established shared sense of...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...is what the soul longs for, And not, as we always thought, the light. No wonder the inner life is dark.2Charles Wright, "In Praise of Thomas Hardy," in A Short...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...the nave now houses documents, memorabilia, and artifacts relating to the trials. Punctuated by train whistles and the noise of freight cars rolling past—along the same route that carried the...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...built environment and the experiences of its inhabitants—mark the city's particularities. Increasing numbers of cars, trolleys, buses, and taxis enabled movement between downtown and suburbs; rural and urban areas; "colored"...