Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...modernization who were in reality already established in the area. Flaherty's work recovers or depicts ways of life that were vanishing, while it exoticizes Flaherty's native "others"—in this case the...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
The Shenandoah Valley
...The Shenandoah Valley encompasses the part of the Great Valley, or the Great Valley of Virginia, that is the drainage for the Shenandoah River. As a geographic entity, however, the...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and consumption (record, radio, etc.) (7). Along with secondary literature, Comentale culls together various sources—including select song lyrics, trade magazine articles from Rural Radio, Woody Guthrie's novel Bound for Glory,...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...2016. Photograph by Flickr user alans1948. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Unlike many other places where eighties and nineties alternative culture flourished, contemporary Athens has not become a bohemian...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...Cornwall, Connecticut, over the course of the 1810s and 1820s, as well as fluctuating numbers of Native youth at a residential school called Choctaw Academy in Blue Springs, Kentucky, opened...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...has suffered more than most of its peers. Its home values have plummeted further and faster than other major metros and its unemployment numbers have stubbornly remained a point or...