Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...the University of Texas at Austin. He recently published the first literary history of the Civil War South, Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America (Athens:...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...reenactors were white, a number of African American reconstructed regiments, such as the Massachusetts 54th USCT, regularly participate in these events. The reenactment phenomenon has proliferated globally to include battles...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...response guidance with the catchphrase "follow the science," in effect denying knowledge gaps and glossing over judgment calls that informed their decisions.9Nason Maani and Sandro Galea, "What Science Can and...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...of democracy"—the extension of democratic ideals to a wide range of social relations. Oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico after a drilling rig exploded and sank off the coasts...
Timber, Equity, and Ethics
Video About the Author Susan Hamill is a Professor of Law at University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa and an analyst of tax law. She is the author...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...University of California Santa Cruz, and Eric Porter, a University of California Santa Cruz American Studies and history professor, take the title of their book from a five-movement Duke Ellington-composed...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...city square, the two-thousand square foot brick sanctuary dates from the late nineteenth century. The wooden pews remain. The pastor’s study has become an office and a small annex off...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...Video still from Susan Levitas, The Music District, 1996. When the tide started to turn after the millennium, the city faced a new problem—gentrification and the dissolution of a concentrated...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
...for an international organization representing indigenous peoples. She studied at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and at Vermont College, where she completed an MFA in creative...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...in the twentieth century, languished under the threat of anti-Black, state-sanctioned violence and economic inequity. While historians often place voting rights at the heart of the civil rights movement, in...