Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...Stephen Bishop's notoriously flirtatious ways. As an 1843 piece by abolitionist and author Lydia Maria Child reports, Stephen "is extremely attentive, and peculiarly polite to the ladies" (419).17Lydia Maria Child,...
Good-Bye to All That?
...of adequately funding Transylvania County's school system. They promoted these positions extensively and worked closely with the local Democratic get-out-the-vote campaign. They lost. In the weeks leading up to the...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...sent to a federal prison in Georgia in the spring of 1958, Kasper was usually in Tennessee but only rarely in custody. As a freelance provocateur, his services were in...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...in eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia as they go about daily lives and leisure pursuits. He visits a local swimming pool, a baseball field, family gardens, a supermarket, and...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...Amie Vanderford is a freelance photographer currently living in Memphis and working primarily in the non-profit sector. Vanderford's work has been featured in a wide range of publications, silent auctions...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...clattering of the old looms, the sisterly camaraderie of the women, the courtyard breaks, and the presence of a baby, workers were closely monitored and their purses searched as they...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...late modernity" (209) can be heard most clearly. "I want to show how Holly's three-minute masterpieces," Comentale succinctly explains, "forged in the non-space of the studio, chirping brightly in the...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...work. Both operate strongly as a sort of interactive component, one in which viewers would not necessarily directly participate (inject/ingest), but they would feel that artistic invitation implicit in the...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...actually be a weirdly satisfying task after a long day of classes—like a mindless video game to chase the ugly punctuation marks—but it took time. There was also no spellcheck....
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...and some Euro-Americans (especially Italians) have long played the music.12Personal communication, Robert O’Meally, 2004. Early jazz had mostly European instrumentation (excepting the African-descended banjo and in some sense the use...