Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Piedmont South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008); Glenn C. Altschuler, All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004); John W....
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
...Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, and many other books. For his work, he has received the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the American...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...Wilson Harris), law and literature (Colin Dayan), ethnographic history (Richard Price), object relation theory and new materialism, and ecocriticism. Her rich archive is composed of published literary texts, manuscripts, non-written...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...2008. His well-written and suggestive new book, Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry, is as engrossing as it is grim. He argues convincingly that during the eighteenth and...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...a family of apparently fairly well-to-do drapers. He studied for the ministry at the University of Glasgow, emigrated to America in 1750, and became a protégé of an important New...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...Family Quilts: Memory and Meaning in Everyday Life (2006) represents a new direction for the study of historic quilts as an aspect of a family's "material behavior" (to use the...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...a fully-fledged movement since we started in 2004. News of our endeavor spread quickly as we hammered, stapled, and stretched chicken wire on our new coop, most of which we...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...January 8, 2016, http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2016/01/08/herman-j-russell-s-old-home-hits-the-market.html; Kimberly Turner,"House Envy: Andrew Young reminisces on Herman J. Russell's 1963 Home," Atlanta Magazine, January 20, 2016, http://www.atlantamagazine.com/homeandgarden/house-envy-andrew-young-reminisces-on-herman-j-russell-1963-home/. The founder of H.J. Russell & Co. was...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Presentation Part 2: Grem discusses conservative evangelical organizations and the rise of Christian small business in the twentieth century Part 3: S. Truett Cathy, evangelical and corporate America, Sunbelt politics, and...
Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies
Video Part 1b: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 2: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 3: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for...