Off-Season
FOR FIELDWORKERS AND FARMERS LIKE ME Early, on grayest morning, when we nettled deep in between rows, tobacco and sweet potato, both two seasons away from planting, you reasoned I...
Little Creek, North Carolina
...into the woods at Little Creek to conduct plant rescue before highway construction, Little Creek, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Discarded water heater from trailer within the highway...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...in population and power following World War II. Industries fled the north and Midwest, lured by right-to-work laws and local bonds that subsidized plant relocations. The Cold War fueled enormous...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...urban renewal. And although I kind of objected to being displaced, because I had a business there, and I had great plans for improvement in the community, south of the...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...Charleston, South Carolina, November 10, 2013. Photograph by Spencer Means. Creative Commons license CC-BY SA 2.0. LDHI is planning new digital exhibitions and collaborations with partner institutions and scholars. In response...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
Southwestern Humor Southwestern humor is perhaps the most intriguing of southern antebellum literary genres, for writers of this loose-knit "school," often contributors to sporting or gentlemen's magazines, abandoned the plantation...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...accepted in many other countries in the world. The problem is that for so many years, too many years, our own government has planted seeds of hate towards homosexuals, and...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
...brief history of Andersonville Prison and the Battle of Petersburg Part 5: Wood suggests theories for the diverging sets of planks in the lower portion of Homer’s painting Part 6: Wood ponders...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, Southern Pines, North Carolina. Photograph by Beth Maynor Young. Reproduced by permission of the University of North Carolina Press. Once full of diverse plant and animal...