Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...religion, and gender leadership styles of reconciliation. We hoped the summer's experiences would bring us better understanding of our societies, with an awareness of common and distinctive factors affecting the...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...The two "characters and careers" exist in some parallel, "meantime" relation to each other – just as in "Volume XXVI" quoted above Stein raises the question (and declines to settle...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...had "betrayed the very name of Jesus." Kesicki offered a sweeping apology, confessed the sin of enslavement, and sought "on bended knee" forgiveness for the Jesuits' entire participation in slavery....
Editors
...Allison Dorsey, Swarthmore College Wilma A. Dunaway, Virginia Tech Connie Eble, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Rebecca Edwards, Vassar College Michael Elliott, Emory University Beth English, Princeton University Keona Ervin,...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
Introduction Playwright Abel González Melo was born in 1980 in Havana, Cuba, the year the Mariel Boatlift saw approximately 125,000 people flee his country, an event he dramatizes in his...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...the political processes are equally open; that is, whether members of a protected class have the same opportunity as others to participate in the electoral process and to elect candidates...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...control the definition of this disease.2See Daniel M. Fox and Judith F. Stone, "Black Lung: Miners' Militancy and Medical Uncertainty, 1968–1972," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 54, no. 1...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...Charles, there was John Greenwell, who ran away from Alabama to Atlanta and found a new home at the Sweet Gum Head. John became Rachel Wells—and Rachel became a drag...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
...of Georgia in 2010. He won the 2011 C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize from the Southern Historical Association and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...week, all Duke classes would move on line, and with that began a collective retreat into the virtual and isolated refuge of distance. We would stay at six feet and...