Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...sent to a federal prison in Georgia in the spring of 1958, Kasper was usually in Tennessee but only rarely in custody. As a freelance provocateur, his services were in...
And the Prize Goes to...
...folklore, information sciences, public policy, music, food studies, and economics. The seminar voted Simone Delerme's 2014 Southern Spaces article, "'Puerto Ricans Live Free': Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape," as...
Writing Appalachia
...region's literature isn't available. Poems, short stories, and novels are available electronically from a myriad of websites; however, even today's computer-savvy readers and students can flounder when the material they...
The Shenandoah Valley
...in 1864 thoroughly understood the region's complex geography and its social and economic landscape; so much so, that they systematically conquered it. The breathtaking beauty of the Shenandoah Valley is...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...of the Caribbean Basin."3Capó, 7. Capó's Welcome to Fairyland interprets Miami as "linked to the Caribbean" and as part of a larger US landscape in a historiographical tradition of employing...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...uncovering the lawsuits they had brought against the Jesuits and other prominent Maryland slaveholders long before the 1838 sale. Some won their freedom. Others didn't—but each of their cases challenged...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...his "experiences of sexual freedom possible. His wealth allowed him to travel around the world, and that wealth was created in large part by black slaves and sharecroppers. His vision...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...haunted a whole generation of people, especially those who became activists in the Freedom Struggle. Darryl Mace's In Remembrance of Emmett Till: Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...and created a new taxonomy for American nature. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) today defines an ecoregion as "a large area of land or water that contains a geographically distinct...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...borrow the notion of "the thin black line" from the seminal black british visual artists' exhibition curated by Lubaina Himid in 1985. For the purpose of today's reflection, the "thin black line" resonates ideas about...