Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...39–58; John Michael Vlach, The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts (Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978). Bottles, shells, pottery and other elements are held to ward off mystical dangers and...
The Liminal Site
...Nashville Railroad, which carried iron ore from the mines that still angle down into the narrow seam of ore-bearing sandstone that runs along the ridge. Today, it's a footpath that...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...feminism unnecessary, and gay sexuality nonexistent. None of that was true, of course, but white, middle-class kids often skated over the consequences. On some vague level, we sensed that we...
Writing Appalachia
...region's literature isn't available. Poems, short stories, and novels are available electronically from a myriad of websites; however, even today's computer-savvy readers and students can flounder when the material they...
Encountering COVID
...get knocked off. When I do stay online, I keep getting the same thing saying I'm not eligible. I know I'm eligible. I can't pay my rent and my family...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...by the economist Elinor Ostrom, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2009 for her work on the economic governance of common resources. Each community shall include...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...one of the new acquisitions. Philadelphia brothers Dawud Anyabwile (illustrator), Guy A. Sims (writer), and Jason Sims (producer) launched what became an eleven-issue run in 1990. Often hailed as one of...
The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
...a Task Force on Digital Scholarship to assess the state of digital scholarship in the historical profession, evaluate tenure and promotion practices and graduate training, and issue guidelines for the evaluation...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...and the Soap Creek Saloon (1973), encouraged a live performative aesthetic among a network of white, mostly male musicians (including Willie Nelson, Michael Murphy, Jerry Jeff Walker, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...Rather than focus on musicians, promoters, and others associated with the music industry, Hopkinson draws upon interviews with an array of participants—including collectors of live recordings, urban wear designers, suburban...