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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...I sketch four real historical bars that Weathers frequented: The Acme, Fernando's Hideaway, The Country, and Mary Ellen's Top Hat. I approach "Cheers" as a historical document that records how...
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...
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...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...history projects about underrepresented race, class, gender, and labor histories in the South Carolina Lowcountry and the interconnected Atlantic World. This inclusive approach to Lowcountry history promotes greater awareness and audience...