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...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...editor of the Tuscaloosa News ("An Office"; Hallman). It's significant that one of those hate-filled letters linked "multiculturalism" to "globalization"—and complained about the outsourcing of "good" US jobs overseas and the...
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,...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...are transformed through the effects of a plurality of discursive practices. One of its nodal points is the signifier "democracy," but it is a floating signifier whose meaning is only...
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...
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...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...(103). This multi-media interplay is a relatively new convention for academic writing. Here, old-school New Historicist methods comingle with explications of computer code and user interface to demonstrate how digital...
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...