Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Atlanta's, but many other municipal codes are silent. A number of cities, towns, and counties are facing an unexpected ambiguity: if there is nothing on the books about chickens, is...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...as they do to rural isolation, commercial underdevelopment, African, British, and Celtic survivals in the New World, and the Lost Cause and other self-conscious efforts to create and shape historical...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...called out whose foot was in the boot. Born in 1837, a famine immigrant from Ireland in 1850, she lost her husband and four children to a yellow fever epidemic...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...loss of mining jobs and the transition to a global market and service economy paralleled the unraveling of the social safety net. In the 1990s, the bipartisan dismantling of Aid...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...and brutality. This version of human bondage, nurtured in Charleston and fostered by proponents in the former Confederate states as part of the Lost Cause tradition, has had broad white...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...also one for reclaiming lost heritage, which in turn offers the tools for exceeding the bounds of Eurocentric culture. The Atlanta showing opened at the High on June 26, 2011,...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
..."sovereign vision," a view of the movement made up from an expanded and enriched collection of photographic expression.3Walker Percy, "The Loss of the Creature," in Message in a Bottle (New York:...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Tom Rankin, Delta Winter, Bolivar County, Mississippi, 2010. Tom Rankin is stepping down as the director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University after fifteen years of service....
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...of work for over a year. He was in real estate development and had shared with my husband that he had lost almost everything they had. His wife Laura is...