Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...I would suggest that the book's metropolitan focus is what places it at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship in civil rights studies. Two aspects are key. He moves the...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...or public health. Articles may focus on cultures, particular persons, places, industries, or events, or, they may compare the treatment of ideas or images across several works, genres, or decades....
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Cause ideology to the formation of southern literature (à la the "Southern Renaissance"), Hardwig reminds readers that much local color literature takes place far away from the plantation, in places...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...disciplined that it would start to become during the late nineteenth century, but rather a capacious practice that engaged a broad and interested public in places far beyond academic or...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...
Dirty Little Story
...have government so broke at every level—federal, state, and county—it can't afford to keep its nice places clean. TVA doesn't enforce its no-littering policy. Probably doesn't have the manpower. The...
Just as Sure
...bad he didn't get that through my brother Willie's head. That fool found his level in the lowest places. Through all the bad, Daddy said still he was his son....
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...is not just an earlier generation of segregationist whites' monster. This is modern, multicultural America's beast. The beauty of Walker's art pulls viewers into places they may not want to...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...and places in the US South. These posts investigate the geographical, historical, and cultural study of real and imagined southern spaces through the lens of archival sources and materials and...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
Video and Essay https://vimeo.com/391985688 Ossabaw Island is a barrier island on the Georgia coast. The island, which trends northeast–southwest, is about 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) long and 10.5 kilometers (6.6...