Place, Time, and Memory
Place, Time, and Memory Part 2: Works that reveal the passage of time and nature upon buildings and landscapes Part 3: Origins and intentions ofChristenberry's “Klan Tableau,” the creation of “Dream Buildings,”...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...black people made a living for themselves and their families, Pruitt-Igoe was instead regarded as dangerous, impoverished, and ultimately beyond saving. Over forty years later, this perception reigned not only...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...Edmund Pettus Bridge Brings Fame, Fortune, to Selma," Montgomery Advertiser, January 5, 1992. Binding memories to landscape, the bridge at Selma locates transitions from one time and space to another....
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...like Cincinnati and Louisville, came to resemble each other as both became hosts to diverse and transient populations that increasingly included African Americans, who often shuttled back and forth across...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
...Barbecue: Stories Beyond the Brisket (2009) and author of A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food (2011). Engelhardt is co-editing (with John T. Edge and Ted Ownby) a forthcoming...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...the promise of a coherent and distinctive effort but whose constitutive features remain contested. Hey Y'all, November 10, 2012. Photograph courtesy of Flickr user Gregory Morris. Creative Commons license CC...
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
...University of Oklahoma. In addition to Enchanting the Desert, Bauch's works include the forthcoming A Geography of Digestion: Biotechnology and the Kellogg Cereal Enterprise (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016)....
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...on Highway 441, four miles outside of town. Visitors must traverse a four-lane highway of sprawl to reach the entrance to the farm across the road from the Comfort Inn....
Anniversary
...water of our bodies, the water in our lungs, which knows these waves, however long, however low. So we come again, each of us a wake returning to comfort the...
Consolation
...a tasteless laugh before turning north along the L&N, if we could take some comfort in the eight humming cylinders that will pull us to 100 before they'll notice, if...