Writing Appalachia
...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...significant number of requests." Further, all members participate on a volunteer basis, spending much of our time otherwise as graduate students, teachers, doulas, herbalists, and nonprofit workers. Over the last two...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...long career, she never "took her hand off the plow" of social justice, and once her course was set, she did not look back. Interviews with a number of activists...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...24,771, all the while having an almost equal number of Black and white residents. The guidebook published by Mississippi's Federal Writers' Project in 1937 romanticized Columbus as "a comfortable old-tree...
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...
Sweep
...an obituary. The names of relative met once, of men from the plant where he works, click like distant locks on my father's lips. I know that it is death...
Emporia newspapers
...is employed as night man at the Artificial plant was arroused [sic] from sleep at her home at 113 South Mechanic street and discovered standing at her bed side a...
Stones and Shadows
...the plant bed is not positioned well. "Your sundial is keeping bad time," I tell my father. He smiles and says, "That's not what I got it for," pointing to...
Darkly
...men bent in the diner's greasy light — as Mongtomery darkened beyond the window, each bus offering its insult or imagined slight — and planned to kill a man they'd...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...frontier lawyer and land-speculator to military commander and national politician and details Ross's life as a Cherokee merchant, slave-owning planter, and tribal leader. Inskeep describes the state of Georgia's campaign...