The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
...the University of Georgia. He is currently working on a book on Indian removal. Previous books include West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (New York: W.W. Norton, 2014), A New Order...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...create new memories based on Atlanta's LGBTQ past. Watch video of Memory Flash courtesy of the G Channel. Map of John Q discursive memorial sites, Atlanta, Georgia, 2010. Printable version....
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...was panned by art critic Hilton Kramer, as "Perfectly banal, perhaps. Perfectly boring, certainly."2Hilton Kramer, "Art: Focus on Photo Shows," The New York Times, May 28, 1976, 62. The New...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...characterization of New Orleans as "an inevitable city on an impossible site."10Lewis, New Orleans. Lewis contends that New Orleans has to exist given its prime location at the confluence of...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...for him with a malignant air and the negro lost no time in taking himself away. After that he knew his place."12J. E. Johnson, "Siamese Twins," in Mount Airy News,...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...preserves. Sacred Harp music has its beginnings in New England music reforms. Puritans neglected sacred music, and by the late seventeenth century, many church-goers were weary of antiquated psalmody and...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...of Fermor's classic.10Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, "Introduction," in The Traveller's Tree: A Journey through the Caribbean Islands (New York: New York Review of Books, 1950, 2011), ix–x. The genealogical link is apparent....
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...the chemical transformation of these places, "Intentionally and not, we have designed a new nature" (191). In this extraordinary rendering, Misrach and Orff have given readers a new vision of...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...containers transporting biosolids from New York and New Jersey wastewater treatment plants to Big Sky Landfill, Adamsville, AL, January 2018. Photograph by Dennis Pillion. "Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of train cars...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...Art on My Mind: Visual Politics (New York: The New Press, 1995), 57. For most Black and white community photographers, local demands and conventions of circulation limited the reach of...