Author: Joseph Kitchens
Southern writer/historian focuses on Deep South and Georgia topics, especially of Native American Cherokees and Creeks, plantation life and cotton. Academically trained with a sense of humor and curiosity about how history impacts families and their everyday lives, even in the smallest places.02.08.2019
Atlanta Confidential/1960 Part 1
Confessions of a Meter Reader After so many years of living in small towns, our move to the…
01.08.2019
Poetry Inspired by the Great War, Part II
The First World War was exponentially more death inflicting than any war before. Led by a small corps…
29.07.2019
There’s Still Time for an End-of-Summer read
Summer is winding down, but if you make it to the beach one last time before fall, I…
20.07.2019
Jack Weatheford, Indian Givers; How Indians of the Americas Transformed the World. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1988. (Paperback edition from Crown Publishers, Ballantine Books Edition 1990.)
Brilliant. When I became the director of the Native American-focused Funk Heritage Center at Reinhardt University, I knew…
17.07.2019
Dog Deprivation Trauma (DDT)
Doc, I Need a Dog My second post-birthday visit to the shrink was last Monday. Naturally, I…
17.07.2019
Fire in the Woods
Historian in a Room Full of Forest Rangers In another life I was the founding executive director…
10.07.2019
Peachie the Labrador: Our Youngest Daughter is a Dog
The human kids are grown and only our yellow labrador, Peachie, remains at home. We brought Peachie to…
05.07.2019
J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. New York: Harper Press, 2016.
The Melting Pot of Grievances; Finding Context for Hillbilly Elegy We are drawn to conflict. In our literature,…
04.07.2019
Impressions of the Great War by a Young Georgia Poet Part I
“…like a sauropod in a tarpit…”