Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...Canaan's fair and happy land Where my possessions lie. O the transporting, rapt'rous scene That rises to my sight! Sweet fields arrayed in living green, And rivers of delight. Filled...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
Review Any historical account requires a framing device—temporal, thematic, or geographical—establishing the scope of enquiry. A Caribbean history typically invokes fairly settled geographical parameters that delimit the area to insular...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...of Central Appalachia. The new standards, enacted to protect the environment by reducing toxic air emissions, acid rain, and urban air pollution, had the unexpected, ironic effect of decimating thousands...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...and Logan placed Caucasian and African American hair together in some of the miniatures, referencing how these objects were treasured as keepsakes of a beloved other. The adding of hair...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...students seeking quality and equality in education, but citizens pursuing fair treatment in all walks of life have benefited from the court's interpretation of the US Constitution in Brown v....
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...an aircraft for evacuation at New Orleans airport where FEMA had set up operations, Louisiana, September 2, 2005. In the weeks after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, the South Carolina...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...likens him to great "yarnspinners" (Blair and Hill 205) like Jim Doggett, the boastful protagonist of Thomas Bangs Thorpe's "The Big Bear of Arkansas." In Bound for Glory, however, the...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...unmistakable passion. The trial judge too, Curtis Swango, was mostly quite fair, according to contemporary accounts, black and white, northern and southern. That fairness is part of the tragedy too....
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...as the site of a resistant appropriation of the diaspora’s removal and as a site of repair. The piano keys appear in numerous other works, including Procession, but sheet music...
A City Divided
...the progress of park-neighborhood buying and building. In one of his regular columns on "Atlanta Dirt," real-estate investor and agent George Adair described his drive through Ansley Park, noting its...