Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...figure out the cause—excrement from the street population, which the city pushed from parks in the tourist center to the poorer southside; guano, which accumulates in the concrete channel because...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...County, Arkansas, born in 1894, set the bar even higher: We use to have to raise our living, can and preserve it for winter use. I was always glad when...
Our Backward Revolution
...versions of racism on a national level for the last half century. George Wallace pioneered the use of code words that avoided explicit racist language in the 1960s, but Republican...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...user Ron Cogswell. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Middle, Woolworth's counter exhibit, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2012. Photograph by Flickr user Tim Bounds. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Bottom, Woolworth's Sit-In sculpture, Greensboro,...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Lee describes it, where the embellishments of the meeting house spill over to Sacred Harp. You add those extra notes on purpose, because it'd be mighty spare and dry without...
California Creek, North Carolina
...what kind of emotions I'm gonna feel." Glyph constructed by Iktome, California Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. "From now on I'm gonna have this place where anybody...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...mandated racially separate, unequal schools and where segregationists in the 1960s attempted to use private school vouchers to evade the watershed US Supreme Court decision. More than thirty-five states have...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...in such a way that it could be “used up” by readers after a few encounters.6Shepherd, “On Difficulty in Poetry,” A Martian Muse (33–45), 34. For Shepherd, poems should be...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...He pointed them toward me because my dissertation was on the Texas borderlands. I approached them with an idea for a project that became the Texas Slavery Project because I...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...North Carolina. White Plains Baptist Church, White Plains, North Carolina, November 10, 2007. Photograph by Flickr user Jimmy Emerson, DVM. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Like most family reunions,...