Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...using ECDS's forthcoming Digital Atlanta Geocoder mapping system – will appear on a regular basis, Hatfield says. "We're always looking for new and interesting voices, and we're really excited about...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...simply refused to give a black farmer an application, denied the request outright, or stated that money for that program had been spent. At other times the farmer would receive...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
And the Prize Goes to...
...skills for critical reading and reflecting. For the rest of the course, to highlight best practices for the study of the South, we considered approach, research design, genealogy of scholarship, and...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...essays is puzzling. In making the case for the significance of his approach, Pfeifer dismisses the value of other approaches to the topic—an unfortunate, but all too common, academic habit....
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...Award for Best Song. Juan Logan, Welcome Home video in its exhibit context, Charleston, South Carolina, 2009. Photo: Rick Rhodes. The blank silhouette that appears on the Wallpaper of Background...
Sea Changes in Personhood
Review While taking its cues from apparently minor literary events and artifacts, Ariel's Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics is a major intervention in literary criticism, political...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...upper crust, was courting Genevieve Williams when her two sisters—Nell and Augusta—were attacked on Shades Mountain, approximately nine miles south of downtown Birmingham. Augusta, along with her friend Jennie Wood,...