An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...winners of national quilt contests sponsored by Lands' End in the 1990s. Laurel Horton has been an active member of the American Quilt Study Group since 1983, served on that...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...African American grave site decorative traditions, such as personal photographs, items of clothing, and other relics and items that provide the traveler or mourner with a direct link to the...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...in their obsession with women's basketball. Of course, the tournament audience includes others besides lesbians; like most queer spaces in the South, lesbians share the space with many other groups—retirees,...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...generation of academics have named it the southern imaginary—runs deep in American culture. We know that it defines, ensnares, and empowers whites and blacks. We know it has tremendous flexibility...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...been the most visited site in the entire national park system. In recent years, more than eighteen million visitors have traveled parts of the Parkway every year."1Anne Mitchell Whisnant, "About...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
Review The Ohio River figures prominently in what are arguably the three most significant novels of American slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Toni Morrison's Beloved both feature...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...connection, as many Cuban-Americans are bilingual. Our conversation, originally conducted in Spanish, has been translated into English here. [Se puede leer la versión en español aquí.] Kiddo: One Playwright's Beginnings,...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...they tell a story central to Arlington and mirror an even larger story of black Americans who lived through the transitions from slavery to segregation. Here rest roughly 3,800 people...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...Slaves? display, Richmond, Virginia, March 2011. Courtesy of the Virginia Historical Society. Virginia Historical Society, Group in An American Turning Point exhibit, Richmond, Virginia, April 2011. Courtesy of the Virginia...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...American travel or blues writer or a visitor from Europe or Asia, and these special guests are taken around the room by Mr. Seaberry and introduced to the regulars, who...