Antietam
...wanted Stonewall on his horse. The old cannons were puny. We asked about fireworks. Our guide said that sometimes, the land still let go of fragments from the war—a gold...
Making History
...it out, says the boy, but no one wants to be the one to pull it out. That's when they turn the camera off. Some nights I dream we meet:...
Scarecrow
...scare a bird. III. Wants to Know Who is my father? Why am I alone? What must this field Feel for the plow? What does the crow love Other than...
Lyrics to Pretty Saro
...and this I understand She wants a freeholder and I've got no land But I could maintain her on silver and gold And as many of the fine things as...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...of our grandmothers who are pierced, and probably do not want to hear about Thomas Hardy, who, if I remember, has been dead longer than they have been alive, And...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...paper's "particularly hot-tempered" correspondents from central Virginia, was decidedly pro-annexation and attacked his antislavery opponents as wanting nothing more than to hasten the destruction of "this vast Southern Empire" (7–8)....
US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces
Natasha Trethewey interviewing Elizabeth Alexander, 2009. From Southern Spaces. This week, Natasha Trethewey was named the United States Poet Laureate. As we celebrate and congratulate her, we wanted to take...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...the agricultural calendar of work and want, supplying farmers' needs at the harvest and enduring the void of unemployment in winter months. While in a few cases, the misery endured...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...finds a place above a falls where the water looks shallow and slow. The river is a boundary between South Carolina and Georgia, and she wants to wade into the...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...to know why a sprawling metropole ranks so low while other such commuter zones (such as Houston) rank higher, you might want to consider using this project's data to launch...