Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...County Livestock Auction sat just south of Marshall, the county seat. Tony Bratton, a local farmer, opened the auction in 1947. Jack Simpkins bought it in 1955 and ran it...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...see their loving-struggle alongside other forms of loving we still debate, and whether we can accept the lives their loving created as lives equal to all others. For us, then,...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...documentary film about mountaintop removal in West Virginia called Black Diamonds – she lived in Baltimore while she made it and lives in Philadelphia now, but she feels a profound...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Fred Fussell offers additional geographical and historical notes in A Chattahoochee Album: It is believed that Native American people . . . had lived in and around the Lower Chattahoochee...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...already, in the antebellum era, opossum consumption factored into a display of racial domination. Hunting methods, such as capturing opossums live to fatten at home and clean out their digestive...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...serve the propagandist aims of the Historical Section through images that "provide highly mediated insights into the lived experiences of the underclass and, necessarily, encourage intuitive or counterfactual readings." This...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...the health of livestock and people. When a small land owner felt this effect, she argued, he abandoned the hazardous substances. The "big land owner," by contrast, lived in town,...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...States. It lives in people, some of whom have no knowledge of its origins but cope with the ever-present longing and lack it causes."1"Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope," Georgetown...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...made, however, still stand in the Presbyterian churchyards of specific communities. Their dated stones memorialize particular people. Elsewhere the lives of these people and their neighbors are more fully recorded....