Old Elementary
...hissing radiators, oil-polished wood floors, crayonwax, pencil shavings, the chronic dust of lead, chalk, faint fear—and the long hallways not hard for me to imagine empty, dimly lit, where I...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
...within the circle and accessible by stairs. In both cases, the passengers are seated facing sideways. The former patent relies on precisely determined distances and heights such that the car...
Substantiation
...shade the one eye. A cruiser eases through the streets, searchlight in doorways, the driver white, dressed like a cop but for the rope marks at his throat, the bullet...
Letter: Blues
...frayed things and balding summer lawns, Watching TV baseball, shelling prawns. The women that we love! Their slit-eyed ways Of telling us to mind, po-eyed dismays. We need these folks,...
Darkly
...can't understand: already, maybe always being there. Maybe they were born into that vacant sky and they were always there, ready to force a choice so they wouldn't have to...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...different imperial pressures, call upon us to shift our framework for studying the history of knowledge in early America in several ways. First and foremost, these case studies demand a...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...identified or how each relationship was defined, loss was always loss, though the grief that followed could take many forms. Loss and grief irrevocably altered the makeup of one's days....
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...her camera continued to yield images seemingly "possessed" by the energy from the lightning field. Inspired by this experience, Dowda works to develop new and innovative ways of illuminating the...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...places in the wider world; and challenge conventional ways of understanding the people, places, and cultures found in and across the South. This 2015–2016 series will examine the relationship between...
Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...for "North Carolina: A State of Shock" by Dan T. Carter, 2013. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. There are several ways in which we take advantage of the accessibility of our...