Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...Transformation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). Applying Sewell to the Catawbas affords Beck a fresh approach to questions of Native historiography. In applying social theory to coalescence, Beck argues...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...in a fine white dress, surrounded by members of the Boston literati, including Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Edwin Booth, James M. Bugbee, and Elizabeth Harris Houghton. The Appalachian author looks quite...
Bricking the Church
...and as its doctrine softens puts on a hard shell for weathering this world. Acknowledgments "Bricking the Church" from Robert Morgan's book Groundwork (Gnomon Press, 1979) appears here by permission of...
Encountering COVID
...had a worldwide pandemic and we knew it and we saw it daily, that we would take the right approach, follow the high road, a consistent approach. We have done...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...York State Arts Council, he has served as visiting writer at Davidson College, Furman, Duke, Appalachian State, and East Carolina universities. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, he...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...gay bars throughout the South. Goodman's appeal rested partially on her appearance. She often wore her hair in a beehive more than a foot above her head. She wore gaudy...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...those preliminary accounts, making the case that in order to effectively resist colonialism, scholars must not define cosmopolitan, national, and indigenous approaches antithetically. In All That Remains, and recent work...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...admirers appreciate its value and interest. At one point just past the middle of her career she pulled together a collection of relatively short pieces of hers about the United...
The Liminal Site
...and neighborhood and second-growth woods that seem much older. More: Red Mountain is almost the last ridge of the great Appalachians running nearly the length of the eastern United States....
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...a family of apparently fairly well-to-do drapers. He studied for the ministry at the University of Glasgow, emigrated to America in 1750, and became a protégé of an important New...