Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...chapters, as well as the introduction and conclusion, opens with a character sketch of a participant in the trade, providing immediacy, reinforcing the role of imagination in the creation of...
Good-Bye to All That?
...a whole. But in some ways, the vote in this county is a microcosm of what is happening across America. When my wife, Jane, and I moved here part-time in...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...susceptible to DDT-induced illness. From existing letters, it's unclear if this is how they felt from the start, or whether they developed this idea in response to official dismissals of...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...in 1980 still resonates. "At its worst . . . regional identification is an isolationist impulse." He deconstructs an essentialist mountain identity. And yet, "The political value of regional identity...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...In the 1830s alone, nearly three in ten enslaved people living in the state were forcibly removed from the Tidewater region. In the decade immediately preceding the Civil War, a...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Eastside, takes its place in the background. While the mural is emblematic of a proud African American history in central East Austin, it also evokes a present in which African...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...is a movement that is unstoppable. Success is hard to measure. But I believe that water quality in the basin has improved steadily, incrementally, one part per million at a...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...I got older and left West Virginia. I write very intuitively. When I'm doing early drafts I hear the story in my head or I hear sounds in my head...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...with a glazed surface. The particular fabric in this quilt has been identified as typical of the chintzes produced in England in the 1840s, which "show an impressionistic shading of...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...con-suetudinario y memoria: práctica jurídica y costumbre en Castilla y León (siglos XI–XIV) (Madrid: Universidad Carlos III, 2012); Yanna Yannakakis, The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity and...