Sams Gap, North Carolina
...bridge at Sams Gap, Sams Gap, NC, 2001. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT supervisors discussing work on the new Visitor Center, Sams Gap, NC, 2003. Photo courtesy of Rob...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...is perhaps Karp's most original contribution, he catalogues naval reforms around midcentury that were spearheaded by two Virginians: Secretary of the Navy Abel Upshur and Superintendent of the US Naval...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...thirty years ago to photograph the region’s people and sugar cane economy. Here, in their respective “outlands,” the flow of time seems obscured and the supernatural is immanent. They conjure...
Roadside Architecture
...at least to my eyes. The churches, for example, reflect their creators' faith in the supreme importance of their goal and give voice to the notion that spiritual concerns supersede...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...slaves' mobility and social space. Yet slaveholders had to live with slave mobility. Enslaved teamsters carted cotton and provisions between plantation and town, usually without supervision, for days at a...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...of Southern Spaces. Our first trip in September 2015 also coincided with "king tides," spring tides accentuated by a relatively stronger gravitational pull associated with a "super moon." This situation...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...aesthetics of advertising. Eggleston met Viva, a Warhol superstar, at his 1976 MOMA exhibition. After they began an affair, Eggleston visited the Factory and met Warhol. Some of his photographs,...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...black folk—above their other concerns." While whites "loved feeling superior to black folk and they loved segregation," he writes, their "churches were unwilling to make sacrifices to preserve segregation. They...
Local Color
...of voice. Often they employed a white male frame narrator whose superiority is not confirmed but instead undermined by his blindness to the complexity of the story within the frame....
Hill Brothers Long Log Harvesting
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