Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity
...noon in the distance as you stoop for a closer look, drawn by the insect's metallic sheen. And then you see that your killing step would have been redundant. Something...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...looks down as her arms entwine with her sisters’ on either side. Just below her sister’s hand, Edith’s hand grasps the skirt of the nightgown she is wearing and pulls...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...by black and white laborers created thin strands of sympathy across racial lines, more often white laborers looked for ways to exploit these differences to some meager advantage, whether it...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...conference in the Southeast. As I read her newest poems, once again I find her taking us into a new place, demanding that we look with unflinching eyes, that we...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...of the Parkway told me we had probably stopped at that same overlook. Other visitors to this website will have similar revelations. While the majority of the pictures in Driving...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...you. It was WAY too easy.” A college-age mentality of “reckless enthusiasm” made everything seem possible, Crowe explained. “When you look back, you realize that the odds were against us,...
Birdhouses
...change. Inspired, I walked across the yard and photographed a periscope-looking house emerging from an apparent wilderness, then back toward the unfamiliar new pond. As many times as I had...
Call for Papers from The Southern Quarterly: Special Issue on "The Mississippi River and Southern Icons"
...Mississippi River as an icon for the twentieth-century South. We are looking for scholarly articles, archival documents, and interviews (but no poetry) on the symbolic importance of the river for...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
Review The image on the front cover of New Deal Ruins reverberates prophetically. In March 1972, after only two decades of occupancy, the first of Pruitt-Igoe's thirty-three public housing towers...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...