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...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...fell into a coma after Hurricane Katrina. Following his passing in 2007, fellow musicians played an impromptu procession in advance of the official jazz funeral. "At 8 p.m., in response...
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"...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...racial equality with heritage entrepreneurship, Alabama tourism officials are acknowledging the state’s rich concentration of civil rights sites. The marking of physical space in Scottsboro makes memories tangible. Donations of...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...freshman in college, I lived and farmed with my grandfather and grandmother for a year. I had a strong pull towards farm preservation and sustainability, probably because I realized how...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...weeks earlier, his planned itinerary was a journalistic roundup, with stops scheduled in the places that had made headlines: Dayton, Tennessee (a 1920s news site Daniels ultimately skipped); Scottsboro, Alabama;...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of fancy.2Edith Mayfield Wiggins, telephone conversation with author, July 10, 2014. Hers was a childhood surrounded by art publications and crafts in various media, and included museum trips to New...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...and pleasures of life as they are uniquely presented by a particular site, and evolving ways to ensure long-term occupancy of that site."3Ibid., 217. I see now, thirty years later,...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...challenge to the access and preservation of library books on the blog as a part of our contribution to spreading awareness (and celebrating!) this week. On October 10, Harold Baer,...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...nature preservation. This builds on important recent work in nineteenth-century environmental history, such as Catherine McNeur's Taming Manhattan and Carl Zimring's Clean and White, and buttresses the argument for long...