Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...was a good sport, letting the drachmas fall out of his pockets; sparing the girl who spilled punch on his shield; waving as I rode the carousel's hippogriff though it...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...books, Good Measure: Essays, Interviews, and Notes on Poetry, 1993; Boone: A Biography, 2008; and Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion, 2011. He has been...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...it should be experienced. There are no clear heroes or villains in these films, no sense of a triumphant victory of good over evil, not even a sense of who,...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...no one would ever get him to sign such a thing. You know how stubborn he could be." "Well, you hung on," Lydde said, trying to see something good in...
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...