August, 1959: Morning Service
...rowed like the gravestones of my kin, but the a cappella hymn sung by my great-aunt, this years before the Smithsonian taped her voice as if the song of some...
Putting up Beans
...filled with great leaves of tobacco, green as beans. Though soon to be gold and brown cured. Now nowhere near Winston or Salems. Not even close to American Spirit. More...
Fort Scott newspapers
...were there arrayed in holiday attire, giving evidence of the virgin excellence of our soil. The industry and intelligence of a people who have combined to a greater degree than...
Georgia Postcard
...spring, a spreading rash, blush. III. Kin: Sparta, Georgia 106-year-old Great-Aunt Kate calls it "the dry grin," what white people give you when they want you to think you are...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
Presentation Responses About the Speakers Kirk Savage is a professor of art history and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively on public monuments within the theoretical context...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...and Austin with their nationally renowned research universities. Sociologically, it is important to explore Wuthnow's work as an exercise in theoretical synthesis and theory testing—the book's greatest strength and liability....
Zircon
Poem Zircon When my great-uncles dug for zircons on the mountainside and on the pasture hill a hundred years ago they'd no idea the little crystal bit they sought would...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...have utilized lobbying to benefit from corruption and abetment in state government and greatly profit at the direct expense of the public.5See Sturgiss, "Looting Louisiana"; Silverstein, "Dirty South"; "Looting Louisiana: A...
The Bulletin—September 21, 2012
...week the Georgia Secretary of State announced that the Georgia State Archives would close effective November 1, 2012. A great deal of protest followed this announcement, including letters from the American...
Glocal Lounge
...Cheryl Temple Herr writes, "Critical-regionalist-cultural studies has great potential for producing a unified but highly adaptive analysis of international flows at the local-regional level, towards the end of a more...