Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...transatlantic slave trade, Eltis has been instrumental to this effort. Through information on the years, ships, numbers of captive Africans delivered, and embarkation and disembarkation locations obtained from Voyages, the...
Writing Appalachia
...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...
Bodies and Souls
...feel the challenges of life and complexity of relationships in their own way. In 2006, Mississippi had one of the lowest number of physicians per capita in the nation (177...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...significant number of requests." Further, all members participate on a volunteer basis, spending much of our time otherwise as graduate students, teachers, doulas, herbalists, and nonprofit workers. Over the last two...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...24,771, all the while having an almost equal number of Black and white residents. The guidebook published by Mississippi's Federal Writers' Project in 1937 romanticized Columbus as "a comfortable old-tree...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...memorials, for the most part, people maintain their personal practices of memorial creation. Roadside memorials have faced a number of legal challenges, as state department of transportation officials and legislative...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...from his hair on the steps of local churches. Maybe it was the end of many letters, the last of hospital days, another sleight to make his hand come alive...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...back never had an older woman fend for me before defended plenty though guess it’s fair in all Union guys they just pull in and pull back like a boxer...
Making History
...with lentils, flash bombs, lo-fi, hi-speed. Somewhere is a petition I should be signing. Somewhere a parakeet is driving a tractor, and I am missing it. A pair of scissors...