Religion and the US South
...rebellion. Religion comforts and sustains suffering people, and a South of slavery, Civil War, poverty, racial discrimination, economic exploitation, ill health, and illiteracy surely needed that crucial support. As the...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...prior to the expulsion, and deaths: "The 1835 Cherokee Census," Monograph Two, Oklahoma Chapter Trail of Tears Association (Park Hill, OK: 2002), 66. Lottery winners exceeded the total number of...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...ongoing project of the Tennessee State Parks to collect, archive, and present the music, folklore, and cultural history of the eleven counties along the 300-mile Cumberland Trail State Scenic Trail corridor....
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...B. Freedman, Barbara C. Gelpi, Susan L. Johnson, and Kathleen M. Weston, (eds.) The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985]: 224.) Using Krieger's typology, Atlanta's Little Five...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...to stick, and he would be sent to prison for his east Tennessee misdeeds. Until then, he never lacked for money to post bail or appeal a conviction, and even...
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency boat ride on the Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, 2008
Amie Vanderford, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency boat ride on the Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, 2008....
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
Introduction Map of Yoshio Koya's destinations, 2011. From February to April 1950, the head of the Institute of Public Health in Tokyo, Yoshio Koya, was sent by the US-led Occupation...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Oil, Louisiana Story can be read as a tone poem as well as a story of an idealized Cajun culture coming to terms with the advancing oil industry in the...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...the Mississippi Delta. It is the kind of road local people drive to reach Memphis or Clarksdale or walk to reach churches and stores and the gravel lanes that lead...