Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...to lie down quietly in the bosom of home, and render up his spirit to Him who gave it— another victim to the dark and bloody spirit of Slavery, whose...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
Photograph of Rosa, Miguel and their son. Global Lives, Local Struggles (Documentary footage used in this essay was provided by William Brown, Director, Living Across Borders.) Part 2: Dr. Odem describes...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...musician noted that the "spirit didn’t drown," as he enumerated the loss of his Gentilly neighborhood home and its contents, then under eight feet of water: a Steinway grand piano,...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...and sexual norms, race and inequality, class and authority, religion and spirituality, place and cultural relativism. Percy wrestled with these thorny dilemmas throughout adulthood. He was a sophisticated thinker and...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...perceptions by constructing and disseminating a nuanced image of themselves as simultaneously sexual and spiritual, dangerous and vulnerable, heartbroken and strong" (243). Critiquing the limits of reform discourse, Sarah Haley...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...can we fill in the gaps, round out the file…?'"2Betty Rivard, ed. New Deal Photographs of West Virginia, 1934–1943 (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2012), 143. In a similar spirit,...
The Carolina Piedmont
...significant numbers. Enslaved African Americans made up ten percent of the Carolina Piedmont's population in the 1760s. By 1800, only two or three counties had black populations of more than...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...that he was merely reporting on "one man's South" seemed credible, and most readers accepted A Southerner Discovers the South in that spirit.7Daniels, A Southerner Discovers the South, 10. Reviewers praised...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...incompatibilities between our interpretation of "fair use" and SoundCloud's restrictive copyright policies. As an open-access journal we are committed to pushing the boundaries of scholarly communications. To accommodate our authors'...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...scarcity, shape popular support for different water projects and policies. Throughout Southern Water, Southern Power, he explores the limits of different attempts to overcome water insecurity as the solutions preferred during...