"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
...(35). John Egerton, "Possum on Terrace" with handwritten notes, 1987. Popham became a leader of a group of who called themselves the War Correspondents, white men who made their careers...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...“shatter zone.” Clothesline, Winter's Bone, 2010. Director Debra Granik (b. 1963) grew up in suburban Washington, DC, and is a graduate of the NYU film program. Winter’s Bone is her...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...“contrabands,” enslaved African Americans who crossed into the federal lines, 1862. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. Homes Broadside, 1873. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. The exhibit reveals...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...freeway, Claiborne Avenue. New Orleans, Louisiana, 2006. Photograph by Lewis Watts. Courtesy of Lewis Watts. Throughout New Orleans Suite, the authors also use specific albums to launch and frame their...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...p.m. - Leave Barney Hester’s House 5:15 p.m. - Arrive at the Old County Jail, 203 Milledge Avenue, Downtown Monroe. (This is where Roger Malcom was held for 11 days.) 5:30 p.m. - Leave...
Dirty Little Story
Essay Map of Fish Trap Hollow and northeastern Mississippi, 2012. ©OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. The visitors are from Virginia, a state that simply sounds clean. There are two young children and a...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...to be impoverished, illiterate, and landless."2Wilma A. Dunaway, The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700–1860 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 21. Steven Stoll's...
Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies
...Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South (Duke University Press, 2003). She is co-editor (with Henry Jenkins and Jane Shattuc) of Hop on Pop: The Politics and...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...and the Top of the Map." History of Religions 10, no. 3 (1971): 225; Arthur Hunt, "2000 Years of Map Making." Geography 85, no. 1 (2000): 6. Yi Hoe and...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...are featured on both the Southern Spaces and MARBL blogs. Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, December 14, 2006. Photograph by Brett Weinstein. Released under a CC BY-SA 2.0 license....