The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...people, places and historical moments. Essays addressing key elements in The Sacred Harp’s origin, development, and character comprise the first quarter of Makers, setting the stage for the book’s biographical...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...service stations float in the road's middle, serving as places of respite along the 264-mile expanse. It is as though you are riding the currents at a controlled seventy miles...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...sacredness on the places of these practices. The unritual comprises moments and spaces of desecration. Unritual occurs when rituals are ignored, violently suppressed or obstructed outright, and where so-called "natural"...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...in place before we can, and what coalitions of actors are best positioned to start those processes. About the Author Gwen Ottinger is assistant professor in the School of Interdisciplinary...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...from place to place. Pargas divides the nation's enslaved population into three major groups—interstate migrants, intrastate migrants, and those who were hired to urban employers. These categories frame his argument...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...“It is now, as it once was, a relatively healthy place.” Six centuries ago, well before the Columbian Exchange began, small bands of indigenous inhabitants enjoyed the bounty of the...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...William Richardson and Mary Davie were removed from their original sites in the churchyard and placed alongside the path, facing south, each protected by a sheath of granite that partly...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...hierarchies, to define and characterize bodies by sex, race, and place, and to enhance their authority as physicians and white men. In the process, they wrestled with the problem of...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...us thinking about Oak Ridge, but about parallels between this supposedly exceptional place and our own lives. She quotes Eudora Welty, that "one place comprehended can help us understand other...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...migratory patterns render it difficult for many African Americans to lay claim to just one regional identity, the South remains a place of great intrigue for a substantial number of...