Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
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...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...also instructive for an 1850s southern audience. Simms might have been thinking about the 1850s South as coming to grips with itself as a newly constituted revolutionary force, yet he...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...no place. "Mississippi has two cities," said Faulkner, "Memphis and New Orleans." Upriver, the Vienna of the Delta is Clarksdale. We looked for easy sevenths and found a covered wagon...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
...a ride that was operated for the public, construction of a ride at Ponce de Leon Springs (Georgia) was reported in the Augusta Chronicle and the New York Times ["Sliding...
Stones and Shadows
...random. We step out of the car at the back of the graveyard, and my father leads me to a new headstone. Then he gestures to the ten letters cut...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...encounter with The Lightning Field in New Mexico, an installation piece by renowned sculptor, Walter De Maria. Dowda describes the piece as a quarter-mile long desert field installed with nearly...
Submission Process
...Does the piece traffic in new and progressive ideas about US Souths or southern distinctiveness and nostalgia? Permissions: Would using the content or suggested media require extensive, expensive, or impossible permissions?...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...a hairsbreadth of starvation. Alvin Jewett Johnson, "Johnson's Map of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware and Maryland, 1863," from Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical...
Crespino's Strom Thurmond: The Last Jim Crow Demagogue and the First Sunbelt Conservative
In this short interview, historian Joseph Crespino discusses his new book, Strom Thurmond's America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of South Carolina politician Strom Thurmond. Crespino explains how...