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...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...paths of four characters—Javi, Mashenka, Zuleidy, and Alvaro—crisscross in a violent and tense battle for survival. The trilogy was followed by nearly twenty other plays. Abel, this trilogy really centers...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
Unquiet Emmett Till
Review Emmett Till continues to torment our imaginations. How could two (and almost certainly more) grown men, veterans, over six feet tall, see a fourteen year old kid as such...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...percentage points. Republican voters in the heart of Dixie are not alone. White southerners and their political leaders oppose immigration reform more than anyone else in the United States. Nearly...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
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...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...Sacred Harp Singing Conventions, and, after 1954, titled Minutes: Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee Sacred Harp Singings, indicate a shared lineage. Today the "Big Minutes" are comprehensive: nearly all annual singings...
St. Thomas Church Supper near Bardstown, Kentucky, August 7, 1940
...picnic supper at St. Thomas Catholic Church, taken by Marion Post Wolcott on August 7, 1940 near Bardstown, Kentucky. We first came across the second photograph in the series, where...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...