Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
Banner image for Driving Through Time, DocSouth, 2012. Review Well-worn words and phrases come to mind when driving the Blue Ridge Parkway—stunning, dramatic, timeless, a miracle of engineering and landscape...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...Missionaries, 1789–1839 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984); William G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986); Thurman Wilkins, Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...sold tickets to Lucina's Music concerts; they kept a list of apartments or houses for rent in the neighborhood; and then, of course, people would run into one another there....
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...For instance, the great risks taken by workers while crossing the border are covered very briefly and illustrated with an image of a family running. In this essay we are...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...issue of temporary workers brought in to construct and staff the Olympic Village and sporting centers then laid off after the Games' close. After Eric Rudolph's pipe bomb was detonated...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...depicts Appalachia as a wild and rural refuge from urban and suburban development. But this first Frazer photograph disrupts its own image of Appalachia as simple, rural refuge by including...
A City Divided
...were very respectable streets."1Walter McElreath, Walter McElreath: An Autobiography (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1984). To McElreath, Jackson Hill was well-off—and white. African American resident Millie Jordan remembered an area that elite...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...co-constructed view of Acadian life than may be readily apparent from the film's generally modernist, auteurist style.13Jay Ruby, Picturing Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000): 67-93. See also Ruby's "A Re-examination of the...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...primarily Cherokee and Creek, who escaped the Trail of Tears and took refuge in remote regions such as the Okefenokee. The great swamp also was a hiding spot for runaway...