Piedmont Blues
...reflects this, meshing traces of gospel, fiddle tunes, blues, country, and ragtime into its rolling, exhuberant sound." --Nick Spitzer Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley has significant links to the...
Julius Hartman
...of his life. "The beautifying of Ponce de Leon park. "There are thirty acres of ground out there that present grander possibilities for improvement than any place in this country....
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...in the country." Freeman quotes several white Oak Ridgers who professed ignorance about the living conditions of its residents (112, 58). Billboard encouraging secrecy amongst Oak Ridge workers, Oak Ridge, TN,...
Remnants of Flannery
...most famous short story "Good Country People"? What would O'Connor's take be on what I call "Flannery on Film," the numerous in-the-works film adaptations of her texts?2 O'Connor's first novel,...
The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
...depicting drought severity across the country, with almost all of Arkansas in severe or extreme drought. Another set of annual drought maps, from the New York Times, demonstrates the extent...
The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War
...history of slavery and emancipation. He is the author of Roots of Southern Populism (1983), and co-editor (with Jonathan Prude) of The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation (1985)....
The Border South
...in 1860 stood at the top of the list in the South in its commitment to slavery. It was the largest slaveholding state in the country with the most slaveholders...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...Captain Simon Suggs, the 1845 creation of Johnson Jones Hooper: "It is good to be shifty in a new country." The genre of southwestern humor is the first of a...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...fiat that changed the initials the young Grant planned to adopt ("U.H.") to "U.S.," with all that the latter letters portend for Grant's and the country's future (according to Four...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...sing to heal the language of its long service as a tool. Greatest of the fingerpickers, lost in dark mud, I do not know about the god of the fathers,...