I-26, Corridor of Change
...of what that meant. I was taken with the romantic idea of wizened faces, old women in doorways, men plowing into the sunsets, hog butchering in the misty morning light....
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...like the gravestones of my kin, but the a cappella hymn sung by my great-aunt, this years before the Smithsonian taped her voice as if the song of some vanishing...
Mississippi as Metaphor: State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
...political culture of twentieth-century America, in particular, the US South. Crespino's first book, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton University Press, 2007), examines segregationist politics...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...SECTION 1. The United States shall create a series of commons communities, each designed to include a specified number of households within a larger landscape that will be managed by...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
I walk red roads, unpaved, blowing away, kicking leeched-dry clay. August. Near a lake fenced with chain link, red brick walls of the cotton mill shine in mid-morning Southern sun....
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...life. On the banks of the Mississippi between Coahoma and Sunflower counties, sits Bolivar County and the city of Mound Bayou. Founded in 1887 near Chickasaw burial grounds by a...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...from elsewhere. Selfie at dawn on a trawl boat, Chauvin, Louisiana, June 2013. Photograph by Lindsey Feldman. A week and a half later, Lindsey and I took selfies at sunrise...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...the sting and shiver of revulsion with the savor of the earth and sun, of this once, not returning, sung for this one ear, on this one tongue. Backwater I...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...such, don't see yourself as part of the great working-class of the world. The huge Daimler-Chrysler plant just down the road, looming in the scrawny countryside like an alien city,...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...because so much work has come out of UVA and George Mason. I’ve also noticed that there’s been a real movement across the country as departments say digital humanities are...