"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Delery-Edwards describes the Lounge as a cultural space that sought to insulate patrons from homophobic violence, what Vernon would imagine in a musical number, "The World Outside These Walls."11Max Vernon,...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...viewer—short-circuit both homonormative assumptions about sexuality and gay identity and metronormative assumptions about sex and homophobia in the rural South. Anecdotally, I've heard from a goodly number of southern gay...
The Shenandoah Valley
...and Eastern Woodland Indians used it to occupy the edges of their tribal territories and as an avenue for travel and warfare. Map of Virginia indicating Powhatan presence, 1924. Map...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...the summer of 1938. By taking to the road, Daniels was following the lead of a number of writers who set out to see the United States in the midst...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...also been highly uneven. Until Hurricane Katrina and the need for cheap immigrant labor to rebuild New Orleans, for instance, Louisiana had little Latino population growth. Within the historic “Black...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...numbers, vetting projects, and trading horses in an effort that to longtime observers must have seemed a fool's errand. Competition, not collaboration, had long characterized metropolitan relationships and it wasn't...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...The Unexpected Impact of Welfare Reform on Older Women in Rural Communities," Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 35, no. 3 (2008): 153–171. Health clinics, legal aid services, and local...