Unquiet Emmett Till
...to Congressman John Lewis. Mace is not the first to suggest this, but the point bears repeating. In Remembrance of Emmett Till is structured around newspaper and magazine coverage of...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...minute 29:33. Several major research projects have come to the fore around the Georgetown history. First, the Georgetown Slavery Archive (slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu, herein abbreviated GSA) is a repository of archival materials...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...perform at a Gaither Homecoming Friends concert, Fort Worth, Texas, April 4, 2009. The other main theme Harrison examines is how southern gospel, from its cultural origins during Reconstruction to...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...Philip C. Kolin notes, at forty-seven, Trethewey is "the youngest writer to have a special issue [of the journal] focused on her achievements."1Philip C. Kolin, "Editor's Introduction: The Triple Crown,"...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...the firm's facilities, equipment, and vast collection of negatives. Around that time, historian and Ybor City native Tony Pizzo purchased one hundred of the negatives that documented his hometown. By...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...home, Walnut, North Carolina. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Like all newcomers, I was often greeted by, "You ain't from around here?" And, people were right to ask, to question...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...in New Orleans. It was my first trip into the city after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and I had been touring a friend around landscapes and cityscapes that I...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...rural and metropolitan residents.2See Ronald D. Eller, Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008), 232–233. In the Appalachian coalfields, the last decades of the twentieth century...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...long career, she never "took her hand off the plow" of social justice, and once her course was set, she did not look back. Interviews with a number of activists...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...Greece and Virginia, blurring the categories of “return,” “home,” and “country." Even if they did not make return trips, migrants’ ties to their home countries frequently remained strong and have...