Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...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...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...Christopher Morris in "A More Southern Environmental History" (2009) have each tackled the subject of inattention to southern places in environmental history.2Otis L. Graham, "Again the Backward Region?: Environmental History...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...refused to sell. They weren't going to cover us up like some of the other places, he said, because we were near the River. So he was hanging on. Besides,...
Roadside Architecture
...Mississippi and the states bordering it had, for me, been little more than places to drive through on the way to somewhere else. When the mid-South unexpectedly became my home,...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...that Rowan County was an exceptional place, with "its own internal dynamics and unique history" (54), and a typical place, characterized by factors and patterns that made it fertile ground...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...Digital Scholarship. His documentary feature film The Well-Placed Weed is available on the PBS website and app. Michael Page is lecturer in Geospatial Sciences and Technology at Emory University. Leotie...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...Liquor. This interview took place on the porch of Andalusia, the home of Flannery O'Connor near Milledgeville, Georgia. Part 2: Hill discusses repetition in Blood Ties, his discovery of Milledgeville, “The...
Dirty Little Story
...blue. We march down to the public place where even those without lakeside homes and boats can go to get their toes wet. We struggle to the bottom of the...
California Creek, North Carolina
...undercut the highway over time, California Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Sign placed on the job site by the contractor, Gilbert Southern, encouraging higher quotas in an...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...the links of her webpage—www.mbpratt.org—you will find more than I can tell you; you will find a place where you can join the action. I first met Minnie Bruce and...