The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...the island but that military action might inspire a Haiti-like revolution. Subsequently, many of Karp's actors were ambivalent about filibustering expeditions, never doubting their aims but their means. In Brazil,...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...neatly replaced the hardscrabble pioneers of Appalachia. Living on the nuclear frontier, Oak Ridgers understood their home as "an island of culture, prestige, and intelligence" (37). The Army Corps hired...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...of the children that others wished to erase. Through art we retold their stories in Atlanta, in Panama, in New York, on Gorée Island in Senegal, in Bellagio, Italy and...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...and converse more with related interdisciplinary fields, such as Women's, African American, New West, and Pacific Islands studies. Perhaps Appalachian Studies could arrange joint conferences with other area studies or...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
Introduction Map of Major Indian Tribes in the "South,"circa 1750 I borrow only my title from Alfred Kazin's 1942 study On Native Grounds, an influential reading of modern American prose...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Hearn, a peripatetic journalist who did stints in Cincinnati and New Orleans before moving to Japan in the early 1890s. Born in 1850 on an Ionian island to a Greek...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
"A flurry of patents [for roller coaster designs] issued in 1884 coincides approximately with Thompson's ride at Coney Island. The patents of Wood (US #291,261 Circular Gravity-Railway) and Stevens (US...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...include islands of the very real and mythic past, a place pockmarked by the slaughterhouses and bingo palaces of more recent acts of survival committed amid and despite depredations. Erdrich's...
Theories of Time and Space
...only what you must carry—tome of memory, its random blank pages. On the dock where you board the boat for Ship Island, someone will take your picture: the photograph—who you...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...A guest book contains testimonies of the latest Virginians: “My family is from the southernmost island of the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago,” “My family came from the Mayflower from England,”...