Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...soil at the Savannah River Plant in South Carolina. Like Goldstein, Howard aims to "counteract cultural amnesia" about the events, termed "the worst nuclear weapons disaster" in history. Moving to...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...In his discussion of the complex racial realities of early New Orleans and, indeed, in his work as a whole, Powell builds on the formidable efforts of previous historians like...
Vestibule
...near the end seemed like rising hymnal rhythm, and let me feel how those forgotten words came from somewhere else and meant something. Something, if only to the single moth...
The State House Aflame 1833
Fire can burn brands on a slave's skin as he changes hands like cattle. And chattel slavery in a capital city is as old as fire and man. Milledgeville's no...
Murray Mountain, North Carolina
...pollution, the noise, the noise is something that is never gonna change. We're never going to have peace and quiet again. There's times I like to go out and pray...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...slats. The post-war, white-flight model of red-lining and restrictive covenants has been transformed. Well-to-do people of color, the poor, and working classes are likewise drawn to urban peripheries. But subdivisions...
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...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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Naming Each Place
Readings Jericho Brown reads the poem "Like Father." Poem text Jericho Brown reads "Prayer of the Backhanded." Poem text Jericho Brown reads the poem "Scarecrow." Poem text Jericho Brown reads...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...was a heat wave with temperatures of 106 degrees. The ground was so dry that the grass felt like a stiff brush under my feet. Yet there was a still...