Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...next to his breastplated body in the little car. He put his arm around me, as the Greeks do. On the first dip he laughed. On the first drop he...
In Memory Hill Cemetery
I've come here to take a photograph of Flannery O'Connor's grave. With me are mockingbirds, robins, and cardinals, nervous, never lighting long, flitting from headstone to bough to picket. I...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
FOR ALL THE CRACKER PACKIN' GIRLS fourteen, I’m packin’ crates Fairmont Foods--Cary, NC only mixed-blood "Indian blonde" girl around only factory workside worker not black all of us under white...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...In Jacksonland, Inskeep offers the book-length equivalent of his op-ed. He narrates Cherokee Removal through the lives and careers of Jackson and Ross, presenting parallel biographies. He charts Jackson's rise from...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...between Thomasville and Tallahassee providing medical care to malaria-carrying rural laborers. Chronic and ubiquitous, malaria not only affected the health of laborers, but sapped the region's production capacity as well....
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...The implications of this trend are far-reaching. It indicates persisting economic hardship for a large number of families with school-age children, signaling that children who usually have the largest educational...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...current organizational structures of contemporary universities. What we say and do here at Emory University this week should ultimately be read as a message to our colleagues across the United...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...