"Aint that Something?"
...of the region that still endure; think of the toothless, bearded hillbilly with a jug of moonshine, or simple folks carving wood or making quilts. A hundred years later, James...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...years old and living in Greenville with her married sister, Buena Vista Westmoreland, who had a year-old daughter. Later she frequently stayed at the home of her widower cousin James...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...movement by educating generation after generation of students and have been doing so for nearly forty years. We have attained about ten graduating cohorts of undergrads so far. This is...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...sceptre, In one hand he holds the rod— In the other hand the Scripture, And says that he's a man of God. —Joshua McCarter Simpson Joshua McCarter Simpson, ca. 1840–1876....
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
Blog post Mother Jones died ninety years ago, but she was back in Alabama this July. It was not her first visit to the state. She came to Birmingham and...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...in terms of the strictness, ebullience, forcefulness, or timidity of the men who were supposedly heads of these modern households, centered on the “nuclear”—yet often three-generational—family.5One might even call it...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...the play. I also worked with Joan Scheckel, a screenwriting, acting, and directing coach who holds workshops and seminars in Los Angeles. She talks about the thought as a nugget,...
The Black Belt
...Institution's Festival of American Folklife and aficianados of modern art at New York City's Whitney Museum. To the Black Belt, in increasing numbers each year, visitors from throughout the world...