"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...description of the methodology, see Ibid, 42-49. Primary Materials Click each city to view headlines and article excerpts from local newspapers. "The South," the "Free State," and Racist Violence Atchison,...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...months I traveled from Tallahassee to Pensacola several times to help repair roofs, clear downed trees, repair hurricane walls, etc. During the down times, in between repair projects, I would...
Whiskey and Geography
...Mountain Books, 1974), 51. Soon nearly every community had stills and nearly all the farm families had some way of making or procuring whiskey. Eventually distillation spread to other areas...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...Press, 1974). Reid has revised this earlier book. See The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock: New Edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004). Austin clubs, notably Armadillo World Headquarters (1970)...
Zircon
...of fifteen books of poetry, most recently Dark Energy (Penguin, 2015). He has also published nine volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek (1999), a New York Times bestseller. A sequel to Gap Creek,...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...Company dating to ca. 1860.2This passbook is housed in the African American Miscellaneous Collection in Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Passbooks were used during...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...in climate, vegetation, and landform as an aid to conservation problems. Regional differences were officially recognized in Robert G. Bailey's 1978 book, which divided the United States into 60 "ecoregions"...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...owned businesses and organizations, as well as for its tradition of protecting Black people's voting rights amid racial violence. The relative success of the town earned accolades from Booker T....
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently Terroir, 2011. He has also published nine volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek, a New York Times bestseller. A sequel...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...consider the fact that The Los Angeles Review of Books has run not one, but two interviews with Franco, as well as a review, in the last six months about...