Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Orleans between 1920 and 1930. In response, both the city and the state of Louisiana passed laws criminalizing the drug's use, sale, and possession. In the weeks that followed the...
Imprinting This Place: Rob Amberg's Documentary Journey
...of southern Appalachia, Madison County sits just thirty miles north of cosmopolitan Asheville, but retains a feeling of being slightly wild, even after decades of change have brought more infrastructure,...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...since the 1960s, many locations in the Appalachian South, like rural and working-class communities across the nation, have experienced the rise of extreme economic inequality, and a growing divide between...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...either side of the Mason-Dixon line, the contemporary policing of racialized spaces—all can be understood not only as battle lines in freedom struggles but also as unacknowledged elements of urban...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...New County Railroad and Distance Map of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina" [c. 1875] Detail from South Carolina Map. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. [c. 1892] Detail from "South...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...sentences to the stand at the schoolhouse door events of 1963. Desegregation was a contentious issue in other schools in the US South, and each school has approached commemoration in...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...country remains dominant in a number of southern states. Remarking on the similar results of the 2008 presidential election in his Southern Spaces piece "The US South and the 2008...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
...discusses “Miscegenation,” “The South,” “Saturday Matinee,” “Elegy,” “Mexico,” “The Book of Castas” and new work About Natasha Trethwey Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished...
Encountering COVID
...gig. Public Health in the US and Global South is a collection of interdisciplinary, multimedia publications examining the relationship between public health and specific geographies—both real and imagined—in and across the...