Memphis, Tennessee images
Memphis, Tennessee: The Mississippi River In the distance is the Interstate 40 Mississippi River Bridge. The "bridge" entering the picture from the upper right is actually the tramway that runs...
"A DASTARDLY CRIME: A Negro Assaults' [sic] a Lady Near Ponce de Leon Springs."
...to Ponce de Leon spring and was returning, picking berries along the way, with her little niece who had accompanied her. "It was about ten o'clock, and as they were...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...fanfare— all the way to Ship Island. What we see first is the fort, its roof of grass a lee— half reminder of the men who served there— a weathered...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...sit on the blanket. It is warmer there, the sun full upon them. She thinks about going back but is almost halfway now. She takes a step, and the water...
The Boatloads
...the roll. But before he's halfway through, there's pushing at the back of the line and no relief in sight. In the end, Charon must abandon formality, must drop the...
Georgia Postcard
...Highway Church of God: "You come in here and pray." Roadkill, and blackbirds that pick at it, Chain gangs, and fat scarlet clover in rippling flocks — a North Georgia...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
...that silence would be lost, would be written over leaving the road a by-way, a dead end with a plaque where people hold photographs to the air so they can...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...atrocities and enslaved people's freedom struggles. Denmark Vesey's Garden shows convincingly that the way in which white and black Charlestonians produced alternative narratives of the past represents an uneven but...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...a compelling narrative benefitted white people, but also how African Americans used the Free State Legend to sway white behavior. His examination of black resistance complicates older notions about accommodation...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...complex, paved roads, a freshwater pond created by excavation, and the present-day lighthouse, still used for guiding maritime traffic in Doboy Sound. Internal Waterway, Sapelo Island, Georgia, 2015. Screenshot courtesy...