Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2010. Born in Hendersonville, North Carolina, October 3, 1944, he has taught since 1971 at Cornell University, where he...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...Press, 2007) he laid out a manifesto for bringing history to our senses. In How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...William Faulkner. Among a host of contributions to any number of scholarly debates, Wise's crisp and clear articulation of Percy's views of love and sexuality will attract the attention of...
Reckoning with Enslavement
Excerpt Georgetown, April 2017 It was early morning when I crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge from Virginia into Georgetown. College spires loomed in the distance, gray in the dawn...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...Decatur, Georgia. She has curated and managed various exhibitions and collections. Moye earned a BA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and an MS from North Carolina State...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...modalities and transdisciplinary vocabularies for comparing creative works across the broader Caribbean. About the Author Aaron Witcher is a PhD Candidate in French and Francophone Studies at The Pennsylvania State...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...ship's deck, did not enter service until 1998. Although the net value of shipping continued to increase during this period due to trade in grain and petroleum, the number of...
Single Centers of Creation?
...Salamander Pseudotriton ruber ruber Northern Red Salamander Plethodon glutinosus Northern Slimy Salamander Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus Northern Spring Salamander Plethodon dorsalis Northern Zigzag Salamander Desmognathus ocoee Ocoee Salamander Gyrinophilus palleucus palleucus...