Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...peacefulness" of the past they had known before the war (55–56). Kieffer returned from war and found a "ruined country, poverty stricken people, and no currency!" Looking out on a...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...is Franco's body, a man's body, big, fit, and good looking. It's a body many men would like to walk around in, but it keeps Darl grounded in a story...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...formal bibliography. Lawrence S. Earley's Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest, for instance, is an important work that readers should know about. The authors overlook,...
Remnants of Flannery
...story as "about two friends, two writers who go down to Milledgeville, Georgia looking for inspiration. Of course, they come back with something completely different. The story is essentially based...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...is in careful looking. Sometimes I am not sure what I am looking for, so I am in a state of watchfulness. When I went to Andalusia in August, there...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
Review The yeoman farmer is a central figure in debates over the historical dispossessions that created the place we now call Appalachia. For historians like Ron Eller, these self-sufficient small...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
Faculty and students of the Appalachian Culture Semester, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, 1980. Dr. Patricia Beaver, professor emeritus and former director of the Center for Appalachian Studies, standing...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...Verey and Penelope Hobhouse. Looking into Ryan Gainey's Garden, Decatur, Georgia, March 26, 2010. Photograph by Flickr user JR P. Creative commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Chad Stogner, founder of...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...1850 and 1860 provide population statistics by nation of origin, providing the total number of German-born in each state. Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth U.S. Census 1860a-04,...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...