Writing Appalachia
...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...in order to address the climate crisis it was necessary to have a radical intervention of the state to regulate the financial system. Furthermore, they stressed the urgency of subordinating...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...but I’m not a statistician, and I’ve talked to statisticians who don’t understand fully the topic modeling algorithm I've been using, latent Dirichlet allocation. I have no hope of understanding...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...Madison County and relate some of what I have learned along the way. Photo Essay Click on each lettered site to see the associated images. About Madison County Madison County...
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...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
Gone With the Wind
...the flickering dark. He was 14. Later, he would be old. Later, the lights would come up for the last time, and he would walk through the theatre's neon halo...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...also injecting new narratives and styles into their work that situate them, as well as the Delta and Bayou, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. The “outlands” envisioned...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles. © Richard Misrach. For me, the petrochemical culture of southeastern Louisiana is epitomized by the pipe rack, one of which photographer Richard Misrach captures in plate...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...publishers and song writers would not begin labeling it "gospel" music until later in the 1870s, the genre's early manifestation, according to Harrison, performed a kind of cultural work that...