Good-Bye to All That?
...young men (mostly black and brown) at a staggering rate; growing numbers of Americans remain food insecure in the richest nation on earth; despite the gains of the last year,...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?" "Summer Water and Shirley" By Durango Mendoza Originally published in Prairie Schooner, volume XL, number 3 (Fall 1966) It was in the summer that had...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...front, by its latest corporate name, TCL Chinese Theater. Even its nearly forty-year run as Mann's Chinese Theater was scoffed at by locals. It was, is, and forever will be...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
The Best of the Martins, 2011. Gaither Gospel Series DVD cover. © Slanted Records and The Martins. For the past forty years or so, "southern gospel" has named a professional...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
Readings Fall Creek As though shedding an old skin, Fall Creek slips free from fall's weight, clots of leaves blackening snags, back of pool where years ago local lore...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...well as historiographical developments in the study of chiefdoms, disease, and coalescence in the twenty years since Merrell's publication, necessitated revision of Catawba history. Beck answers that call with skill,...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...years of squabbling that its melody was beyond the register of ordinary people, for example, Congress in the 1930s finally made "The Star-Spangled Banner" the national anthem. A few years...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...proved too poor to broadcast. The next year, they tried again. In The Soul of a Man, Ronnog Seaberg holds up the 1965 reel. "This is it," she says. Ronnog...