"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...
"Little Switzerland"
"LITTLE SWITZERLAND, A Private Park that is Visited by a Large Number of People" "In considering the many improvements that are going on in various parts of the city, Little...
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
Series editor: Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia. Submission deadline: March 17, 2014. Questions: write to managing editor Jesse P. Karlsberg. Southern Spaces, a peer-reviewed, online journal, invites scholars, critics,...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...Literature 46.1 (March 1974): 56. Like the "stinger" of Christ lodged in Hazel Motes' mother's head, O'Connor demonstrates "that the violence of rejection in the modern world demands an equal violence...
Bodies and Souls
...feel the challenges of life and complexity of relationships in their own way. In 2006, Mississippi had one of the lowest number of physicians per capita in the nation (177...
Gone With the Wind
One night in 1940 my granddad slumped in the dark in the Princess Theatre, which is not here anymore, to watch Gone With the Wind, then watch it again, in...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...on American culture, I find more parallels with the central themes of his Communities of Discourse (1989). Although markedly different—the grand scope of European history as compared with a more...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...all but 7.5 of the Parkway's 469-miles opened to the public in 1961. Those final few miles, around Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina, the "missing link," took another twenty-six years...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...Author Brent M.S. Campney is associate professor in the department of history at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and is author of This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...transformation, and both manifest the qualities of dedication and determination in moving toward that goal. Blair Mountain March and Rally, Day Six, Blair Mountain, West Virginia, June 11, 2011. Flickr...