Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...by Dr. Marc Mullinax. Courtesy of the Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies at Mars Hill University. By doing their jobs, Appalachian Studies teachers and researchers have furthered the...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Turner Field). Throughout the two weeks between the Opening and Closing Ceremonies on Sunday, August 4, the place and purpose of this patently international gathering was juxtaposed to the corporate...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...Education Betsy DeVos’s plan to spend billions of federal dollars on private school vouchers. Sign protesting Betsy DeVos at a rally, October 13, 2017. Photograph by Flickr user Backbone Campaign....
Writing Appalachia
...are, for example, obvious similarities between the poor mountain whites of Murfree and Fox, and their counterparts in the work of lowland southern authors Caldwell and O'Connor, who are not...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...appliquéd fabrics. 16"x11.75"(closed), 16"x11.75"x23" (open). Collection of the Gwendolyn Ann Magee Estate, D. E. Magee, administrator. Deep Into the Woods, one of Magee's later works, offers a purely sculptural means...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...that all the stories worth telling—stories of love and betrayal, heartache and triumph, justice and oppression—could be found in one small corner of the world. Getting the stories right meant...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...debts from his estate. The plaintiffs allude to an 1820 deed through which Thomas Peter transferred forty-six slaves to John Parke Custis Peter and other persons, along with six hundred...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...number about 200, and the casual quarterly meetings are attended by a mix of academics and members of the public. The first annual Atlanta Studies Symposium was held at Emory...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...professors entered poems Gautreaux had written in a Southern Literary Festival contest held in Knoxville. Keynote speaker James Dickey read the winning poems, among them Gautreaux's, and invited him into...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...folk revival.11Alan Lomax and Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, All Day Singing from "The Sacred Harp," recorded 1959, 33 1/3 rpm record, Southern Journey (Bergenfield, NJ: Prestige, 1961). But Lomax's vantage...