Mapping Souths
Essay Stories that use the South by purporting to map it are no new thing, as two nineteenth-century passages responding to the question of southern secession will illustrate: It is...
Birth Right
...is a need for these procedures in no more than 20 percent of all births.6Wagner, Marsden. Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...with some party members talking about the need for Republicans to pursue a fifty-state strategy. 2008 Presidential Election Results by State (Democratic states in blue, Republican states in red) Other...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...of As I Lay Dying. In this clip the Bundren men try to balance their need for income with their obligation to honor Addie's burial wishes. One of the biggest...
Scarecrow
"In a field I am the absence of field." — Mark Strand I. To Dorothy Everyone needs something to hang onto. It helps us keep the crows away. You...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...much needed texture and intimacy to our understanding of racial violence. Moreover, they remind us of how much the practice of lynching was contingent upon local factors and the specificities...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...a walking cane long before he needed one for support. He once crawled through an airport security checkpoint on his hands and knees after the attendant insisted on x-raying his...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...fear of racial vandalism at the site, making all the more clear the need for remembrance. However, no vandalism has taken place at the site of the historical marker, reports...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...the past, and the romantic nostalgia of the present." In 1921 she told the Richmond Women's Club: "Here in Virginia, we need liberation not from the past, but from our...
Remnants of Flannery
...Drago's words, in Christine Ernest's pixelated and distorted needlework portrait, in O'Connor's words that remain in print and are read by countless students and fans. As the recent Bitter Southerner...