Threshing crew in the Tygart Valley, West Virginia, August 1936
...of agricultural production during the Great Depression. More of Mydans's photographs from the Tygart Valley can be found on the Library of Congress website. Carl Mydans, Threshing crew loading bundles,...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
Rebuilding the Land of Dreams Video Part 2: Spitzer discusses “The Basin Street Blues” and prominent representations of New Orleanians in the realms of work and play Part 3: Spitzer discusses how...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
...York was a poet of great vision and a deeply humane intelligence. His work to chart the history of his native South and the civil rights movement—its violence and erasures—represents...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...novels have failed to approximate what makes these books great: the language that layers detail upon idiom upon idea upon history, building up a story like paint on a canvas...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...of Amite County, when they were not working in the field and garden with their parents, Lee and Hancie Campbell, during the lean years of the Great Depression. When he...
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...fans we directed towards them. We jumped a rope fence, sort of. We itched for days. We were met with only some suspicion. We went to see Great Gatsby at...
Birth Right
...of maternity care throughout the world. Many developed countries, including several in Western Europe, such as Great Britain, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands, use midwives as the primary birthing attendants...