Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...The author's choice of Middle Florida makes sense considering the book's time frame: 1820-1920. From the Territorial era through the Great War (the other great war), Middle Florida commanded the...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...and even during the Great Depression in the 1930s, but Jean's interest in photography waned. Sometime in the early 1940s he sold his interest in the company to his brother...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...we turn the ignition and hit the gas pedal. Tom Zarilli, I miss you, Tallahassee, Florida, 2004. The appearance and structure of roadside memorials varies greatly. They may be simple...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...the female sex. Men became ill too, of course, but their diseases were more idiosyncratic and their emotional control greater than in the case of women. Physicians in the South...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...and sent you back to pick and sing for nearly forty years in church and at parties and to get by as a hired hand, practicing fatherhood. Greatest of the...
The Dirt Eaters
...lay on Great- grandma's grave when I was small. "Most cultures have passed through a phase of earth- eating most pre valent today among rural Southern Black women." Geo Phagy:...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...time when national chains like McDonald's and Church's Chicken were experimenting with catfish on the menu. There was great promise for the Scotts nationally, coupled with great resistance against them...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...felt great loyalty to the memory of the Confederacy, but they appear to have shared the prevailing white Southern sentiment that the flag was best reserved for honoring the Confederate...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...of a warring nation. The Lincoln administration took great pains to avoid any formal recognition of the "Confederate States of America," but Congress and federal courts often referred to both a rebellion...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...Studies, for example, faces funding cuts under an education regime that has seen declining public support for higher education, a greater reliance on tuition dollars to fund higher education, a...