"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...of Ozarkers engaged in agrobiodiverse farming and gardening at the beginning of the twenty-first century is likely around ten percent, if not less, and these are spread throughout the region. As...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...used rocks; come home from work and right away, after mixing up martinis, go out to her back porch and chonk rocks at the little birds; busted their little heads,...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Atlanta region is now second only to the New York City MSA in terms of its number of black homeowners. Between 2000 and 2011, metro Atlanta's black homeowners nearly tripled...
Religion and the US South
...Episcopal Church, ca. 1876. Lithograph of Richard Allen and other A.M.E bishops by J.H. Daniels. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/resource/pga.03643/. A consideration of the...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...Julius Hartman, a local landscape designer who had successfully esablished another local park called "Little Switzerland" (adjacent to Grant Park, Little Switzerland's site became White City amusement park in 1907)....
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...Wedding of the Siamese Twins, which had premiered on Broadway in March 1988. A field trip to the twins' original homestead, now retooled as Mayberry Campground to attract from all...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...of this lecture, Prof. Womack taught Native American literatures and gay and lesbian literatures at the University of Oklahoma. He joined the English Department of Emory University in the fall...
The Shenandoah Valley
...not only evoked in its Indian name which means "Daughter of the Stars" but also in the wide ranging literature about its rivers, streams, mountains, caves, and springs. Thomas Jefferson,...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...The Selected Shepherd, you present a generally equal number from each of his six collections, with a little bit more from Angel, Interrupted. What were you looking for as you...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...only demographic shift in Atlanta: From 1980 to 2000, in-migrants from the U.S. and refugees from around the world also settled here. During this period, Atlanta's population grew from two...