Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...the agricultural calendar of work and want, supplying farmers' needs at the harvest and enduring the void of unemployment in winter months. While in a few cases, the misery endured...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...family owned farms by large-scale agribusiness effectively ended sharecropping and farm tenancy. No longer needed in the cotton fields and no longer wanting to work in them, generations of black...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...artistic vision, many of Kennedy's prints function as both advertisements and art, emerging from and responding to the idiosyncratic needs of the communities they illustrate and inhabit. As an artist,...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi is a welcome and much-needed investigation into the unlikely survival and surprising success of this remarkable indigenous community. About the Author Claudio Saunt is the Richard...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...movement, now set to be waged in county local option contests, needed black political support" (101). Map of Middle Florida, 2012. Southern Prohibition focuses upon two local studies (Leon and...
Whiskey and Geography
...needed only equipment and grain to get started. Those who had no prior knowledge worked with neighbors and learned by doing.4Joseph Earl Dabney, Mountain Spirits, Vol. 1 (Asheville, NC: Bright...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...the negative I need for the platinum contact prints. The platinum print expands tonality, revealing a truthful sense of place. I work alone and slowly. The advantage in going slower...
Roadside Architecture
...my interest. When I first arrived at the University of Mississippi in 1999, after sixteen years in Texas, I felt a pressing need to explore my new surroundings, both locally...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
...the need to pursue and disavow US empire and how the “Plantation South” functions as a repository Part 4: Greeson explores how a narrative from the era “can prevent the collapse...
Mapping Souths
Essay Stories that use the South by purporting to map it are no new thing, as two nineteenth-century passages responding to the question of southern secession will illustrate: It is...