Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...locales, with most of their emphasis on New England and the US West. Otis L. Graham in "Again the Backward Region?" (2000), Mart Stewart, in "Southern Environmental History" (2002), and...
The Place of Appalachia
...Appalachian Case (Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1978); Dwight B. Billings, "Introduction: Writing Appalachia: Old Ways, New Ways, and WVU Ways," in Culture, Class and Politics in Modern Appalachia: Essays...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...friends that lived down at the end of the street. I first got the word from him that they were moving. I knew that Jeff, the dad, had been out...
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...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...a work that traces historical connections between New England Native intellectuals in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, arguing that we should understand their efforts in concert, not as isolated acts...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...efforts to trace the counter-narrative's lineage. Celebration of Emancipation Day, Charleston, South Carolina, January 8, 1877. Sketch by Harry Ogden. Originally published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, February 3, 1877....
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...corn, soybeans, and cotton thrive. The Mississippi River and all its branches flow over the boundaries of its own banks, flooding the soil and adding new sediment, giving it new...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...tendency in the United States for new singers to "imagin[e] this locus of tradition . . . as 'southern,'" in Europe, teachers at Camp Fasola, and new European singers alike...