A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...Atlanta's Southern Regional Council. In 1977–1978, he was journalist-in-residence at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Egerton has written or edited eleven non-fiction books and contributed over two-hundred articles to...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...Archives and Rare Book Library. Burned church artist's book, interior, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., Kennedy and Sons Collection, Emory University Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library. Kennedy's artists' books...
Besieged Terrain
...education, training, and new kinds of jobs for Appalachian people. The Embattled Wilderness offers an antidote for despair, a bit of hope amid the heartbreak. Despite the odds, and for...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
Commentary An online search using the keywords "COVID-19" and "lessons" turns up an astonishing volume and assortment of information: thousands of commentaries, news stories, scholarly articles, book chapters, and monographs. The...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...Photograph by James Robert Chambless. Courtesy of the Sacred Harp Museum. The Sacred Harp, a shape-note tunebook first published in 1844, has long been the center of a network of...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...The Forgotten Commitment to Sustainability," in Living in the Anthropocene: The Earth in the Age of Humans, eds. W. John Kress and Jeffrey K. Stine (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, in...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...scholar Heinrich Julian Schmidt, "the only book that could be seen in the hands of a farmer or gentleman, was a book about America."7Julian Schmidt, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...New Orleans Suite offers thoughtful discussions on issues of concern and contradiction, the second half offers an optimistic narrative on the abilities of music-centered cultural production to dismantle reductive, overly...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...2011 by The University of Georgia Press. Other recent poetry and prose books include The Dead Father Poems (Horse & Buggy Press, 1999), The Best of the Kudzu Telegraph (Hub...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
Review For more than twenty years, scholars have sought in article after book after conference paper to expand the timeline, reach, and definition of environmental concern and activism. This uncoordinated...