An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...in one—and went skinny-dipping. Sometimes people walked to a big Victorian house on Hill Street and danced to mixtapes in the hall between the rolled-back pocket doors until their clothes...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...Tennessee Valley Authority, responsible for this spill, used MTR coal from a number of different sites. The environmental and cultural costs are astronomical for a process where a "typical operation"...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...particular varieties of crops such as corn. Because hominy remains a popular food in traditional Ozark homes, those families continue to grow open-pollinated field corn. Zachariah McCannon, Hominy made with...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...comprised a minority of Americans, such small numbers may belie important differentials along lines of race, income-level, gender, or occupation. Experiences of illness through chemical exposure eroded Colson's and Plyler's...
The Shenandoah Valley
...many thousands of visitors a year from the eastern cities and many millions of dollars into the region. Park boosters engineered state takings (under eminent domain) of the land from...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...in the 1860 census. The 1880 census records this married couple—William Tinny, age fifty-six (born about 1824) and Bridget Tinny, age fifty (born about 1830)—living on Stanton Road, in what...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...of unions that drew her temporary staffing company to Atlanta in 1987: "We researched Atlanta. We knew the growth. I know the business here. Any time there's no unions, there's...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
Religion and the US South
...landscape of places where many people were passionate and open about their faith. By Faulkner's time, evangelical Protestantism had already long dominated the South as a whole, and this proselytizing...