The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...Civil War Centennial Center, Downtown Richmond, 1962. Courtesy of the Valentine Richmond History Center. No other place embodied that particular spirit of 1961 quite as well as Richmond, the former...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...of Planning. Dr. Obermiller has provided consulting, training, and evaluation services for the Cincinnati Health Department, the Cincinnati Public Schools, the Indianapolis Public Schools, Northern Kentucky Family Health Services, the...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...intone. Only the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Map National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map Cover Image...
#598, Common Meter
...And here my spirit waiting stands, Till God shall bid it fly. 3) ‘Tis he, by his almighty grace That forms thee fit for heaven: And...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...will defeat me and my tribe. Who is he to imagine he will kill me with his songs, sacred or commonplace? Who is he to be sure that his spirits...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...documents the religious lives of the region’s black residents and evokes how people sacralize the landscape through spiritual expression. His images of the churches and cemeteries that dot the Delta’s...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...as bare locative facts that quickly give way to spiritual or metaphysical abstractions" (115). Nature, for Wheatley, serves as a pretext to the formation of an "ethereal and echoic poetics"...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...but who is also the animal spirit Big Mother Porcupine. She has been alive for centuries, as she points out, and is therefore well able to connect present-day red-on-red and...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...the Protestant Apprentice Boys of Derry defended the city against the monarch's claim to divine right. More recently, the Free Derry civil rights movement represented a modern freedom struggle. On...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry… I support the freedom to marry for all. That's what Loving, and loving...