Genres of Southern Literature
...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...government support for private schools as both the origin and primary foundation for the current movement for "school choice." Sign protesting Betsy DeVos at a rally, Bellevue, Washington, October 13,...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...upper-class Americans who looked South for their musical roots and artistic inspiration.8According to W.K. McNeil, Will Wallace Harney's 1873 article, "A Strange Land and a Peculiar People," is significant "not...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...ferries, etc. delineated correctly and faithfully." The maps were atlases of opportunity for speculators and entrepreneurs. Enterprising Georgians promoted themselves as land appraisers, guides, innkeepers, attorneys, and merchandizers in the...
Religion and the US South
Introduction Hope Mills Rapid Lube Sign, Hope Mills, North Carolina, March 20, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user Gerry Dincher. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. Religion has been a formative...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...filmed press conferences and statements from the participants. With protestors outside the gates of the Greenbrier carrying signs denouncing Alabama Governor George Wallace and Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett, the group's...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...coal miner listens to his radio, West Virginia, 1938. With the onset of the Great Depression, radio's significance for rural families grew despite the lean conditions. During the 1930s, the...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...1–9. The dish, known as "'possum and 'taters," was one of many items of "southern cooking," which, as Diane Spivey points out, signified a "Whites Only Cuisine" during Jim Crow.7Diane...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...of the Atlanta painting, and promoters moved each canvas from city to city for exhibition. At every stop, riggers installed the panorama in a massive rotunda building, a specially designed...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...contest. A three-hour Battle of Atlanta tour is an opportunity to gain new knowledge about tactics, topography, and combat action and to contemplate the broader context and significance of a...