Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...begins again to stretch awake, move out into the world. The biscuits and gravy are still there, and the Luckies, and the soldiers on the streets from Camp Croft, all...
Little Ivy, North Carolina
...grave removal, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Family members gathering for grave removal at the Little Ivy Church Cemetery, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007); and Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt. The Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant located in Burke...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...had lived there? Those Xs raised questions without answers, and although the symbol was strong, I filed it all away as a memory of Floyd. Almost seven years later the...
Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later
Video Part 2: Dr. Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta's physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Dr. Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...the opera house, so that an otherwise all too typical lynching became national, and even international, news. The story, for instance, appeared in a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, along...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...Radical Environmentalism. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020). They move beyond a celebratory narrative to embed the environmental movement within the larger political and social developments of the past half-century....
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...students (approximately 2/3 of all US public school students) in 2008. Almost all districts in the study had individual enrollment totals of at least 1,800 students. See full report at The...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...like other rural towns in eastern North Carolina, it carries significant histories. Shiloh Landing marks the point along the Tar River where enslaved peopled disembarked into brutal lives of forced...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...know why all of us, everyone one and all of my kin people, played. And all my boys can play. [inaudible] Mitchell: Well how many people around here did you...