Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...toward things that are farther away — as a rough analogue, though in reverse, to the historical layering process that formed the cityscape. In the parts of these cities that...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...succumbing to the effects of smallpox, treaties, and armed conflict. At first, the self-sufficient farmers in this heavily wooded landscape owned few slaves. Enmeshed in a spreading web of neighbors...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...structure of most ads is uniform, some offer deeper insight into the global system of slavery. This 1775 ad from Wilmington, for example, details the escape of a slave named Quamino...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...South Part 7: Fostering integration and homeland ties within Latino Catholic spaces Part 8: The transformation of the religious landscape. *Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta was sponsored by...
Congregation
Congregation https://vimeo.com/134849755 Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Congregation," 2010. View poem text here. National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map of Gulfport, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast About Natasha Trethwey...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...urban landscape, e.g. occupancy of office buildings; closure of retail stores; restructuring of restaurants and pedestrian spaces? How are the over one million lives lost to Covid in the United...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...inscape, or individuation, sounds so close to terror you'd confuse the two, as if the finest and the rarest blend would come with just a hint of fear or pain,...
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New Shades o'Death Creek
...and Droop, stretched a flat featureless landscape, dotted here and there by a gray pond. At the near edge a few stunted trees clung to life. "How big is it?"...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...county's landscape and political economy. I have continued to return almost every year as I work on my dissertation about Mexican guest workers who plant trees for reforestation companies owned...