Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...state maintains the right to control it. Tom Zarilli, Highway 319, north Florida, 2004. In Florida, memorials are routinely removed by the DOT during mowing and maintenance. Also in Florida...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
Introduction DDT is good for me advertisement, Time, June 30, 1947. Scan by Flickr user Crossett Library. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Early in 1949, Dottie Colson wrote to...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...is natural to any one thinking that it is pleasant to be one.... Once in talking and saying that in America the best material is used in the cheapest things...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...from the wind. This same soldier will leave her in a year. Then she’ll leave to go to Florida, to find her family, working people, forever poor, ready to move,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...are interested in opening up the U.S. to their cars—and are getting a boost from the falling dollar, since they can sell cars produced in the U.S. cheaper than they...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
Greetings from Austin Greetings From Austin, Capitol of Texas. Photograph by Flickr user mirsasha (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). In July of 2011 Bon Appétit named Franklin Barbecue of Austin, Texas, the...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...slaveholders settled in the fringe river valleys. During the Civil War and the decade after, many African Americans fled because of the lawlessness and violence. Arthur Keller, Display of pumpkin harvest,...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...