St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...protests. Largely ignored by locals and overlooked by tourists, the market sits empty in the center of America’s oldest continuously inhabited, European-established city. Despite its changing purposes, it remains best...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...it is here that we learn the way that mental institutions operated in the wake of slavery. Despite Galt's insistence on 'intermingling,' Gonaver shows that Black patients in Virginia's asylums...
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...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...I saw how, with the best intentions, people would attempt to implement change, perhaps win a victory, and then watch it slide away in a year or two because institutional...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...as Jheri had requested, I rang her eighty-six-year-old mother back in Smith County, Mississippi. Reverting to my old southern accent, I said, "Miz Jones? This is John Howard. I'm calling...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...need to nurture the idea of reviewing, critiquing, and writing about visual art. It is important, because art movements are rarely reported on in real time. For this reason, I enjoy...
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
...year, I hear the hum of the mill, and her humming the numb walk home after a shift change. When she wakes in mid-afternoon it is 1945 and her life...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...business claps its hands in satisfaction. What I'm thinking is what about—what about—what about— What about McWane Inc. in Birmingham, major manufacturer of cast-iron pipes, one of the country's worst...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...is no longer palatable, however Ozarkers, create innovative dishes that convert something that is usually wasted into something useful. Willodean turns the large over-ripe cucumbers into cinnamon rings. Here is...