Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...9, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/how-many-american-men-are-gay.html. The attempt to statistically classify and pinpoint the number of "gay" men "in our midst" is nothing new. Unveiling and unmasking our identities so that we can...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...Native American and United States history and participates in WCU's Cherokee Studies program. Denson is author of Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture (University of Nebraska Press, 2004)....
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...developed, financed, designed, and constructed by African Americans for African American residents.2See Betsy Riley, "Collier Heights awarded Local Historic district status," Atlanta Magazine, May 16, 2013, http://www.atlantamagazine.com/civilrights/collier-heights-awarded-local-historic-district-status/; U.S. Department of the...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...across the Rio Grande River, Los Ebanos, Texas, March 3, 2014. Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/resource/highsm.27608/. What if we...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...His poems have appeared in various print and online journals, including Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Greensboro Review, Backwards City Review, and Southeast Review. Interview with...
Besieged Terrain
...arrow darter, and the endangered, "gorgeous" Allegheny wood rat. The southern Appalachian Mountains consist of four broad provinces: the Blue Ridge, Great Valley, Ridge and Valley, and Appalachian Plateau. The...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Kiri Miller, Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008); and Laura Clawson, I Belong to this Band Hallelujah!: Community, Spirituality, and Tradition Among...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...African American studies at the University of Virginia. She specializes in African American history, black cultural politics, and labor history. She is the author of The Rise and Fall of...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...on Thlewarle and Mendoza’s story illuminate tensions of spatial jurisdictions About the Author Dr. Craig Womack is an Oklahoma Creek-Cherokee Native American literary scholar, writer, and teacher. He received an...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, 2011. William G. Thomas III, Statue of Stonewall Jackson, Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, 2011. Indeed, one hundred and fifty years ago in 1861, Richmond became the capital...