John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
Preface On a muggy Sunday afternoon in June of 1959, John Cohen wandered the winding mountain roads of eastern Kentucky searching for old-time musicians. Neon, Bulan, Vicco, Viper, Daisy, Defiance...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...Suitts, A War of Sections: How Deep South Political Suppression Shaped Voting Rights in America (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2023). There is no way to forecast if Justice Alito...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
Review Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America is the first literary history to focus exclusively upon Confederate literature. Dating back to Edmund...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...out with assistance from a Georgia Tech web designer. As someone new to digital humanities, being involved in that process helped me learn a great deal about how to build...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Quarter's) deep history as a site of celebrated deviance may have delayed political radicalization.16Ryan Prechter, "Gay New Orleans: A History" (PhD diss, Georgia State University, 2017), https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_diss/60/. Fifteen years before...
Writing Appalachia
...Alabama and Georgia northeast to the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Labrador, and from the Piedmont through the western rim of the Cumberland Plateau as far as Ohio. However,...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...the center of historical investigations into matters of culture, education, identity, and labor. Across five chapters that illuminate localized Latino histories in Alabama, DC, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South...
In Memory Hill Cemetery
...rod, the first for birth, second for life, and third for death in slavery — household slaves working for the important families of Georgia's old capital. When did the third...
Artist Repertoire Index
...early 1980’s) Baby, Please Come Back to Me (or Baby, Please Come Home to Me) Baby, Please Don’t Go Georgia Buck Hide-away I Can’t Stand to See You Go Long...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...Carolina (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012), 276. We all live in communities. In a sense, no one really lives in the United States but in neighborhoods, towns, and counties....