California Creek, North Carolina
...Creek, NC, 2002. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Paving crew, California Creek, NC, 2002. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. I-26 with fresh pavement, but far from completion, running along Jarvis...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
Confederate and Union troops in close combat, Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Painting by the Atlanta Panorama Company. As the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta approaches,...
The US South and the 2008 Election
Essay At least since the 1960s, every presidential election has elicited abundant commentary on the role of the South in national politics. The 2008 election has been no different. It...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...of the Tinney network in the District may help account for the high quality of the Nannie headstone, if kinfolk pooled resources to help commemorate her. 6. Finally, it should be...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
Reading John Lane reads the poem "Returning Home, Saxon Mills." Poem text. About the Author John Lane teaches environmental studies at Wofford College where he also directs the Goodall Center for...
Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean Perspective
Presentation About the Speaker James W. Porter is the Meigs Distinguished Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia and a faculty member in School of Marine Programs, Water Resources and Conservation Ecology. Porter has...
Sowing The Seed Underground
...and graduated from the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Montana in 1997. She currently resides in the Altamaha Community of Reidsville, Georgia, and teaches in the...
Dirty Little Story
...She now lives near Iuka, Mississippi. This essay is courtesy of Kings Features Syndicate. Johnson is the author of several books, including Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming (2010)....
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Presentation Part One Black women who influenced Johnson's thinking about literature, folklore, the arts, and "quare theory" while growing up in western North Carolina and when attending UNC–Chapel Hill (5:27)....
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
...and Haitian revolutions Part 5: Davis discusses political and moral debates leading to the US abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1808 Part 6: Davis compares impacts of US...