Gold Records in Deep Space
...(1922), Robert Flaherty had Nanook reenact hunts and domestic routines. 1940s era newsreels such as The March of Time (1935-1951) utilized reenactments, often with the original participants of events. Because...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...textbooks. But nearly every major US newspaper covered the events of March 1931 in northeast Alabama. The news of successive Scottsboro trials reverberated globally, prompting demonstrations from Cape Town to...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
Review Bohemia Spillway New Distributary, Mardi Gras Pass, March 2012. Photograph by the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. Courtesy of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. A curious thing happened in Louisiana...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
Sarita Alami, THATCamp Feminisms South participants edit wikipedia pages for TooFEW, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 15, 2013. Southern Spaces has had a long and sometimes sordid relationship with Wikipedia....
Birth Right
...1989, Alabama had one of the highest rates of rural hospital closings in the nation.2Health Care Information Resources Group for the American Hospital Association. (March 1994). Hospital Closures 1980-1993: A...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Healy, "Diabetes Belt: American South Gets More Health Notoriety," Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2011, accessed June 30, 2014, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/08/news/lat-diabetes-belt-20110308. Exhibited at the decaying Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn from...
The Change
...earth when quenched with rains called forth by our song and drumming. Leaves, which weeks later, would be taken down and the strings pulled like string on top of...
Off-Season
...a back hoe, first time I got to frame, and when I swung the hammer full leverage, three pounds drove in sixteenpennys straight. In six weeks, I made foreman. Just...
Antietam
...ground, gravel lodging in the skin of my palms. I cried the whole way home. After a week, the rocks were gone. My mother said our bodies can digest anything,...
Atchison newspaper
...the action as disgraceful, and within a few weeks the entire affair will be forgotten. This is a way Americans have. The pulpits will ring with denunciation, and the people...