Insistent Traces
...Pharoah. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New England Review, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, and Crazyhorse. In 2008 Emerson was named Poet Laureate of Virginia. Her...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...miles away on the plains."1Michael C. Robinson, "Natural Disasters," in The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 1, ed. Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris (New York: Anchor Books, 1989), 584....
"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
...conference and Popham's biography. A Virginia native, Popham was sent by the New York Times to cover the US South in the mid-twentieth century. In 1958, after twenty-five years on...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...and doing graduate work at Columbia University she was named National Field Representative, Collegiate Council for the United Nations, New York. She returned to Atlanta in 1960 to work as...
Let Me Do My Thang: Rebirth Brass Band
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From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...own histories. While traditional migrant destinations such as Miami, Los Angeles, or New York loom large in demography and popular consciousness, many locales have significant and diverse foreign-born populations. “The...
Remembering Documentary Filmmaker George Stoney
...public-access television, a teacher at New York University, and a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was remembered in the New York Times, the Village Voice, and by Tom Rankin...
Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...
Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean Perspective
Presentation About the Speaker James W. Porter is the Meigs Distinguished Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia and a faculty member in School of Marine Programs, Water Resources and Conservation Ecology. Porter has...