The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...wants to have a good time. I turn my telescope on the Puerto Rican couple fighting, kissing in a window across the concrete courtyard, three parrots escaped from the loading...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
..."America's Most Historic City" featured an elderly black man on its cover, hat in hand, opening a wrought-iron gate accompanied by text that omitted any mention of enslaved people; and...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...need each other, that I am not a ward of America, I am not an object of missionary charity, I am one of the people who built the country—until this...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...of New England, 2003), 206; Allan Greer, "Commons and Enclosure in the Colonization of North America," American Historical Review 117, no. 2 (April 2012): 365–86. But Hardin cannot be dismissed...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...touched on these questions elsewhere, in Listening to Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), for example, but he does not address them in this book. For...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
..."Oak Ridgidness": "a particular cultural sensibility based on a utopian vision of nuclear science, a belief in the necessity of a nuclear America, and a sense of expertise, elitism, and specialness"...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007); and Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt. The Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant located in Burke...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...self-protection, and the Federal Government will have become their enemy."5"Confederate States of America—Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union,"...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...not nor has it ever been a predominant concern of most southern gospel songs or groups" (101). Cover of Walter B. Seale and Adger M. Pace's "Wake Up!! America and...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board and Black America's Struggle for Equality (New York: Random House, 1975). The histories of these desegregation sagas and others—the Little Rock...