Anniversary
...York reads the poem "Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road." Poem text. About Jake Adam York Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father and his mother,...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...produces ecological disasters as well as economic, political, and social inequalities.3Ann Pettifor, The Case for the Green New Deal (London: Verso, 2019). The American version of the Green New Deal...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
Essay No Southerner by origin, Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. "As I am an ardent Californian," she has Alice B. Toklas say in The Autobiography, "and as she...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...previously "undeveloped" countryside. The latter turn out to be exceptional turncoats in an otherwise "loyal" and tight-knit rural community. Merthiolate-Colored Flags Sibley's locating Sweet Apple within the pastoral was as...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...traditional sources and deep archival work. But digital methods give me more tools to do what we’re all trying to accomplish, which is to answer questions. It allows me to...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...a training site near Anniston. By the early 1960s, the Army's entire Chemical-Biological-Radiological Corps Command was moved to Anniston, and the site also became home to a chemical weapons storage...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...that has given solid footing to African American literature and theory, and the emergence of postcolonial, transnational, and other multicultural critical discourses — in light of these events, Eliot's dream...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...connects the open ocean with areas behind the beach, allowing tidal waters to move in and out. Cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) – Grass species that dominates lower parts of Georgia coastal...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...General William T. Sherman, General Ulysses S. Grant, and Admiral David Dixon Porter (left to right) on board the River Queen docked at City Point, Virginia, on March 28, 1865....
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...the oral history interviews for the book? Themes of spirituality, sexual fluidity, nomenclature, and queerness (9:08). Part Four Johnson acknowledges several women in his oral history project who have helped...