Editorial Style Guide
...original orthography and punctuation. Italicization: Book titles: Check the book cover or the title on the publisher's website for exact wording and capitalization. Italicize the title. The Signifying Eye: Seeing...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...can write an entire book about one small county in one decade. But instead of being a reflection of academics being narrow, it’s really a reflection of the fact that...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...natural and modified landscapes at the expense of blacks' economic interests. Here, Kahrl offers a wide-ranging critique of the white supremacist and predatory foundations of coastal capitalism, as expressed in...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...work that she views the language that she writes as if she saw her pages from the air, as if "from an airplane."3William Carlos Williams's pioneering essay, "The Work of...
Writing Appalachia
...need to have a representative selection of Appalachian texts in one book because we teach Appalachian literature and have wished for such a book. The problem is not that the...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...in the aggregate, and in multiple ways, including the familiar forms of maps and timelines, but also in more abstract digital displays. My involvement began with the Modern Language Association...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...Pruitt's evocative and deeply disturbing photographs make this a remarkable book, but it's Hudson's poignant writing and his personal connections to Pruitt, Columbus, and its people that make the book...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
Essay For over thirty years, historians in the United States have written about slavery in terms broached by John Blassingame's path-breaking book The Slave Community (1972). Blassingame, George Rawick, Lawrence...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...and a BA from Dillard University. His first book, Please (New Issues in Poetry & Prose, 2008) won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament, was published...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Healed': Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild, Civil Rights and The Temple Bombing of 1958," Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library, Emory University, 2008. The odds that the bombers would succeed in...