A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...all Confederates.5Randall, Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln, 99. Military and federal authorities charged or indicted a significant number of former confederate leaders, including Jefferson Davis late in the Reconstruction era, but presidents...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...break. Her father has taken time off from his job and they have followed the Appalachian Mountains south, stopping first in Gatlinburg, then the Smokies, and finally this river. She...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta's LGBT Community
...Emory University Photo Video. Dr. Jesse Peel, psychiatrist and longtime AIDS and LGBT community activist, moved to Atlanta in 1976 where he opened a practice that served primarily gay men....
The US South and the 2008 Election
...it for the first time since the 1870s. In 1930, New York was the most populous state, and California was only the sixth largest. By 1990, California had almost twice...
Bricking the Church
...a New York Times bestseller. A sequel to Gap Creek, The Road From Gap Creek, was published in 2013. A new novel, North Star, is forthcoming in 2015. In addition,...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...on the Pirate Ship three times, swooshing forward, back, upside down, and he cried Aera! waving his sword, until the operator asked him to please keep all swords inside the car. He...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...economic driver, Appalachian Voices, April–July, 2014. Graphic by Jamie Goodman. Courtesy of Appalachian Voices. Why is Appalachian Studies largely silent on other areas important to people in the region—housing and...
The Bulletin—February 11, 2013
...groups that had longer waits than their counterparts (whites, Republicans, non-urban dwellers). As reported in The New York Times, long waiting times depressed turnout in states like Florida, where residents waited an average...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...Patrol Agent Killed in Texas in What Senator Calls an Attack," New York Times, November 19, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/us/border-patrol-killed-texas.html. About the Author George T. Díaz is an assistant professor of history...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...politics. At times, Mellard overlooks the contradictory and intricate qualities of the actual music, most obviously when he contrasts the meaning of progressive country with that of the...