North Carolina: A State of Shock
...there were symbolic victories. One proposal would have made Christianity the official religion of North Carolina.5Rowan County Defense of Religion Act of 2013, House Joint Resolution 2013-494 (in committee), http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=h+494....
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...study the National Park Service commissioned on LGBTQ historic sites. I contributed a chapter on Miami that narrated existing (surviving) physical sites. This work challenged me to think very differently...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...to the local, sectional, international, and transnational. In a first chapter on literary criticism in the Southern Literary Messenger from the 1830s into the 1850s, Hutchison convincingly disrupts arguments that...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Ole Boys Defined a State (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009), 4. To speak of an "Arkansas imaginary" in this essay is to conceptualize Arkansas as a site—particularly among poor...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...in climate, vegetation, and landform as an aid to conservation problems. Regional differences were officially recognized in Robert G. Bailey's 1978 book, which divided the United States into 60 "ecoregions"...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...that preceded it, through a motorcade stopping at sites of memory. Simultaneously, about 350 pickup trucks, cars, and motorcycles, most of them sporting the Confederate battle flag, participated in a...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...There is a complementary challenge for the site's users who ultimately ask themselves, "How is this site imagined?" In some ways, our project occupies middle ground between the "real spaces"...