Writing Appalachia
...seek is scattered to the four quarters of the internet.1Websites for locating Appalachian writing include Documenting the American South (docsouth.unc.edu) and Making of America (quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/). Additionally, many specialized anthologies of...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...in and of the American South," Southern Cultures (Summer 2000): 50–72; Mart A. Stewart, "Southern Environmental History," in John B. Boles, ed., A Companion to the American South (Maiden, MA: 2002),...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
Southwestern Humor Southwestern humor is perhaps the most intriguing of southern antebellum literary genres, for writers of this loose-knit "school," often contributors to sporting or gentlemen's magazines, abandoned the plantation...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...an Emory dissertation, submitted in 1997. I had these really superb advisers: Mary Odem, Catherine Nickerson, and, of course, Allen Tullos was chair of my committee. Martin Duberman was an...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...because the cheapest things have to be made of the best material to make them worth while making it, it is really that it comes to be a romantic thing...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Klux Klan held a pro-Confederate flag rally at the South Carolina state capitol in Columbia. Many other "Protect the Flag" rallies popped up, mainly in the South. The Southern Poverty...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...the tropical and temperate world.” Map showing Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry, 2011. Indeed, his dilemma becomes which stars to feature at this crowded convention. Malaria and smallpox earn...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...As the major railroad hub in the South, Atlanta became a commercial and financial center. Although the city's business leadership was a new elite, its economy depended on many ways...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...1920s when African American migrants made up the majority of residents in the area, the market was a place to hear the blues—shopkeepers and stall-holders would encourage musicians to set...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...southern music. Commercial songs that were popular and mass-produced and made money were not southern music. As folkloric ideas about authenticity spread, listeners increasingly expected musicians to racially "embody" the...