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...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...collaborate with local artists, as in the case of the mural at Hawk's Bar & Grill, painted by James "Brick" Brigance. A native of Orange Mound, Brigance adorned many neighborhood...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
Review To borrow a line from Joel and Ethan Coen's seminal slacker classic, The Big Lebowski, James Franco "draws a lotta water in this town."1 If you don't believe me,...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...assault. Top, Original street-facing window of the Drew household at 1108 Center Street, Birmingham, Alabama. Bottom, The brick wall that now surrounds the house, Birmingham, Alabama, ca. 2020. Video stills...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
Readings Dan Albergotti reads "The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "The Boatloads." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Accidents Happen with...
Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...along the Gulf of Mexico and a greater naval presence in the South. The navy was central to the international perspective of slaveholders—to defend against British-led abolitionist incursions and to...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...'60s and early '70s in Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Colombia (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2003), 387–460....
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
...spending the 2012–2013 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow at The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. This presentation is drawn from his book project, Sounding...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
Essay Nancy Marshall, Altamaha River, Georgia, 2010. From "James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha." Chiding conventional historians for their neglect of nature has a long tradition among environmental...