"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...the Scottsboro Boys, 1935. Courtesy of Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Local speakers acknowledged the racial injustice done to the nine teenagers. With a powerful statement, the...
The Colonialist's Gaze
...misery of rural workers under the colonial state. The observer appears detached from and indifferent to the suffering of the hunched, dying man. Armstrong, in an ominous field book note,...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...books, Good Measure: Essays, Interviews, and Notes on Poetry, 1993; Boone: A Biography, 2008; and Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion, 2011. He has been...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
Essay Al Clayton, Will Campbell, 1975. The Reverend Will D. Campbell, a "renegade" Baptist preacher whose unorthodox ministry to a far-flung parish of unchurched souls was the signifying hallmark of...
Regions of Alabama
...Prize. In 2004, his book Dixie's Forgotten People: The South's Poor Whites was re-issued. Prof. Flynt's books have won many awards, some multiple times, including: the Lillian Smith Award for...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
...A former Rhodes scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of several books on early American slavery, including Black Majority, published by Knopf in 1974, and Strange New Land,...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...York: Vintage Books, 2005); Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986); Richard G. Hewlett and Oscar E. Anderson, The New World, 1939–1946: A...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...a third book on the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Her first book argues that Native literary works are either implicitly theoretical or deal directly with theory....
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
...and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936–1968 and the co-editor of a new scholarly edition of Arna Bontemps's 1939 novel Drums at Dusk and of the collection of essays...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...bread made of musty pea-flour" (110). Ignominy as much as starvation precipitated surrender. Top, "Submarine Torpedo Boat H.L. Hunley, Dec. 6, 1863," Charleston, South Carolina, 1864. Oil on panel by Conrad Wise...