Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...terms of country of origin and where they settled in the state), class, race, and gender. We chose people who had lived the "American dream" of achieving financial success, but also...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...to be seen. Appalachian activist and poet Wendell Berry published a new poetry collection titled This Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems, documenting and exploring Berry's habitual Sunday strolls on...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...people have drawn on a limited number of tropes. Whether Bayard Wootten's photographic illustrations for Cabins in the Laurel,1Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel (Chapel Hill: University of North...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...here are at least twice that of the rest of the country. The people are mainly a rural, white population whose families have lived in Appalachia for generations, dating back...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...Alabama, and Haralson, Carroll, and Heard Counties, Georgia. Alabama and Georgia Upcountry Sacred Harp Singings, 1995–2014 Alabama and Georgia Upcountry Sacred Harp Singings, 1995–2014. Interactive Map by Jesse P. Karlsberg...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...federal lawsuits challenging voting discrimination across the country. These Congressional amendments overturned a 1980 Supreme Court opinion that a law violated the Act only if intent to discriminate could be...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...4/4, are sung with a slow plain section leading to a brisker fuging section. Brittain noted he had never heard "Novakoski" sung with this change in tempo, and the class...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
...Stanford University in 2002. His research interests focus on the political culture of twentieth-century America, in particular, the US South. Crespino's first book, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and...