History: The Parlor
...unspecified bric-a-brac. In contrast, the furniture in the sitting room included, among other items, a walnut writing table, two bookcases with glass doors, one lot of about a hundred books...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...against "the members of the lawless band" to, according to the county attorney, "erase the blot on the fair name" of the county.4Wright, Racial Violence in Kentucky, 118, 165; NYT,...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...wildlife refuge. The End of the Street "There are probably seventy lots total in the neighborhood, but only twenty homes, so everyone knows everyone well. My son had three little...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...figures of style. For instance, she interprets Bartram's 1791 illustration of the American lotus as "a palindrome, a sequencing of plant-animal-plant that swallows the animal into vegetable life" (79). This...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...the pilot publication in Stanford University Press's digital monograph publishing initiative. Other scholars in the "MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas" series demonstrate how digital mapping has led to...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...into the landscape of O'Connor's stories. The place is eerily quiet except for the occasional sounds from the auto sales lot p.a. system nearby on Highway 441. Once inside the...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...plot conflict involving exaggerated, comic collisions of characters based on class and education, civilization vs. barbarity. His narrator is the southern aristocrat. When one of his folk characters swears, the...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...gerrymandering; voter suppression; voting patterns) Pandemic voting (voting rights; ballot initiatives; mail-in voting; voter access; United States Postal Service) Political activism (social justice; movements and mobilization; countermovements; grassroots efforts; the...
Insistent Traces
...reads the poem "Aftermath." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134757059 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134757420 Claudia Emerson reads the...
Transcript: Interview with Precious Bryant
...you know, started learning how. Now, I used to play a lot; I’d take my guitar to school when I was goin’ to school, and we used to have talent...