Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...(The collection is the second in the last two years to take a global perspective, a recent trend in the field.)4Manfred Berg and Simon Wendt, eds. Globalizing Lynching History: Vigilantism...
Substantiation
...pair has woven strips of Look Bryant spreads throughout the woods. In twenty years no one's come. He opens a shotgun on the starlings' calls each morning and they spray...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...site often directs readers to Wikipedia pages, thousands of visitors a year come to our site by following links on Wikipedia pages which cite our pieces as sources. Even more...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...against "the members of the lawless band" to, according to the county attorney, "erase the blot on the fair name" of the county.4Wright, Racial Violence in Kentucky, 118, 165; NYT,...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...Los Angeles to New York to New Haven. Not content with just being a talented actor, Franco has spent the last few years trying to fashion himself into an arts...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...of time means another year’s growth, another layer of knotted branches and complications. A wisp of understanding may be possible here, but not clarity, not order. The UVA Art Museum...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...years. In the affected region, cases of the worst stage of "black lung" disease have quadrupled since 1980. The report featured photographs from Earl Dotter's "Quiet Sickness" series documenting coal...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Tom Rankin, Delta Winter, Bolivar County, Mississippi, 2010. Tom Rankin is stepping down as the director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University after fifteen years of service....
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...wheat production. Unlike tobacco or cotton, wheat required bursts of intense labor at harvest, followed by relative lulls in activity. In order to maximize their investments in year-round, bound labor,...