Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...from many of the states in which slavery was legal before the 1860s, but overwhelmingly from the plantation country of the Lower South, from South Carolina to Louisiana. She draws...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/resource/nclc.01060. As the western edge of European settlement, the mountainous backcountry of eighteenth-century Appalachia briefly represented a space of relative freedom from state...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...generals reappeared as elected state and federal officials. With the Amnesty Act of 1898, no white southerner would have their full rights of citizenship questioned or abridged because they or...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...representatives of labor unions from across the country—longshoremen, flight attendants, municipal employees, as well as members of the United Mine Workers of America from West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...candidate: "These people aren't against brown or Black people. They just don't like the way Democrats are running the country."10Michael H. Keller and David D. Kirkpatrick, "Their America Is Vanishing....
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...nation that emerged from the crucible of war a century before. Despite the impressive props and setting, the centennial commemoration faced awkward challenges. The events began as Virginia’s elected officials...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
Greetings by Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey introduces the 2014 Callaloo Conference. I am Natasha Trethewey, the Director of the Creative Writing Program and I’m pleased to welcome you to this...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
Readings Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "The Change." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Off Season." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Packin' Four Corner Nabs." Poem text....
Bricking the Church
Poem Robert Morgan reads his poem "Bricking the Church," 2014. Bricking the Church At the foot of Meetinghouse Hill where once the white chapel pointed among junipers and pulled a...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
Review I came to Brett Gadsden's work with some doubts of how and why the state of Delaware merited its own local study, and with growing apprehension about the proliferation...