New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
Introduction In an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, Mexican children ask, “Where were the Hispanics with Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis?” An Egyptian girl at the same school wonders...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...I began to investigate the possibility some seven years ago, I was surprised to learn that it was perfectly legal to have a coop in Decatur. So I approached my...
Genres of Southern Literature
...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...to appeal to the most viewers and over time not to lose viewers.41Paul Weaver, "Newspaper News and Television News," in Television as a Social Force: New Approaches to TV Criticism,...
The Place of Appalachia
...maintain family and community ties. County Economic Status in Appalachia, Fiscal Year 2013, Appalachian Regional Commission. Population Change in Appalachia, 2000–2010, Appalachian Regional Commission. Unemployment Rates in Appalachia, 2010 (County...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...of the Ohio, together numbered approximately one hundred thousand troops as they approached the city, but only about twenty-seven thousand of them fought in the Battle of Atlanta.11Woodworth, Nothing But...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...century; the forms of violence the larger nation imposes on Appalachia in its appetite for Appalachian resources. Appalachian people are not more violent than other Americans, however, despite popular narratives...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...and constructed over the airwaves an idealized aural representation of a southern Appalachian small town's culture. Rural Radio The introduction of radio into the rural United States in the 1920s...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...by hand, using the coding view in Dreamweaver. I tried to code it all in xhtml. As we brought on additional students to help—Sarah Toton, Steve Bransford, Paul O'Grady, Jere...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...books on her cabin in North Georgia, including A Place Called Sweet Apple: Country Living and Southern Recipes (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967), reissued by Peachtree Publishers in 1985, and The Sweet Apple...