Besieged Terrain
Review When most people consider beautiful landscapes that are worthy of saving in the southern Appalachian Mountains, they think of tall, cascading waterfalls, high, open ridges, and grasslands with dramatic...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
Introduction Map of Main Indian Removal Routes from James W. Clay, Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989). On May 28, 1830 America’s long-standing policy...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
Essay In early 1943, John Yoshida escaped from the American concentration camp at Jerome, Arkansas.1This essay is adapted from John Howard, Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations: Part 2: Sanchez explores the impact of Mexican immigration on construction work in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina Part 3: Sanchez...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
Review Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America is the first literary history to focus exclusively upon Confederate literature. Dating back to Edmund...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
Introduction Cyrille Bissette (1795–1858). Print by François Le Villain originally published in Joseph Elzéar Morénas's Précis historique de la traite des noirs et de l'esclavage colonial, contenant l'origine de la traite, ses progrès,...
Local Color
Local Color Local Color as a literary genre bears the full weight of the concept of region, for its typical stories and sketches offer highly particularized visions of "locale" that...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
The SCLC Collection Elaine Tomlin, Joseph Lowery leading a prayer during the 1982 Pilgrimage to Washington for Voting Rights, Peace, Economic Justice, North Carolina, 1982. Courtesy of SCLC records, MARBL,...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
Banner image for Driving Through Time, DocSouth, 2012. Review Well-worn words and phrases come to mind when driving the Blue Ridge Parkway—stunning, dramatic, timeless, a miracle of engineering and landscape...
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...