Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...stare at us." Bill's eyes angled down, dark and serious, as he spoke into the television camera. "As people find out that you are a homosexual, there's a good chance...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...'Airs,'" writes Simpson, "I have gathered such as are popular, and extensively known. Many superstitious persons, and perhaps many good conscientious, well-meaning Christians, will denounce and reject the work on...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...the left. Coal is a filthy fuel, a major contributor to global warming, yet promises of "good paying green jobs" sound like pie in the sky to working class families...
Regions of Alabama
...of place to "Alabamians," highlighting the good and bad of provincialism Part 4: Dr. Flynt explores the failure of Alabama's political leadership About the Speaker Wayne Flynt, Distinguished University Professor...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
Reading John Lane reads the poem "Returning Home, Saxon Mills." Poem text. About the Author John Lane teaches environmental studies at Wofford College where he also directs the Goodall Center for...
Mississippi as Metaphor: State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: The limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: The idea of Mississippi as America writ large: did the “Mississippi...
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...