An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...rural Louisiana," as well as the writer's talent for writing about machines: "Here is a writer who can make the refitting of an engine as compelling as another author's love...
Genres of Southern Literature
...1830s, northern writers and readers were busily creating assumptions about the South’s difference, and writers and readers of the South correspondingly defined themselves against the place (the North) or the...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of southern deindustrialization and Asian labor markets. Who makes what where, when, and why depends on a chase around the globe for cheap labor that involves overlapping waves of industrialization...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...and on whiteness -- fields that did not exist during Shepherd's time -- take these poems up. Solomon: There's a complexity in these poems and in his essays that should...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...it must be against the deacon’s foot. Jimmie Carole Fife, Pufketa - "The Horn." When the congregation is called into church for services, a horn is always used. The one...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...was writing fiction whenever I could. That usually meant during breaks between quarters. While I was writing so much intellect-driven scholarly work, the pressure to write intuitive fiction would build,...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...reviews, researching primary materials, emailing writers and archives, finding supportive media, researching historical information, gaining copyrights, and formatting the text for an online, born-digital piece. Abbott: I became managing editor...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...stores, and residences. Once a place obtained postal service, its citizens were equally determined not to lose it or see it curtailed. When one small town had its mail service...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
Introduction U.S. Public Health Service Advertisements, ca. 1905. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/resource/hec.20772/. In the winter of 1936, Minnie...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Officialâs Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...birth control and found it unnecessary to provide any services to African Americans. White professionals who sponsored birth control services for blacks repeatedly changed their minds and terminated financial support...