Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
Essay Al Clayton, Will Campbell, 1975. The Reverend Will D. Campbell, a "renegade" Baptist preacher whose unorthodox ministry to a far-flung parish of unchurched souls was the signifying hallmark of...
Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...
New Shades o'Death Creek
Excerpt Set in West Virginia, this excerpt from Giardina's novel of time-space travel, Fallam's Secret (2003), evokes the physical and emotional landscapes of mountaintop removal in the southern Appalachians. On...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...and the fun. In the midst of Reagan-era nostalgia for some fantastical American past, they reminded those of us who listened and danced like crazy that we could still make...
Congregation
...Prize and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her third collection, Native Guard. Natasha serves as a producer for the Southern...
A Mess of Poke
...sallet ("salad"), grows natively with astonishing vigor across the American South. Despite what Tony Joe suggests, however, pokeweed is not an exclusively rural species, in "the woods and the fields."...
Bricking the Church
...Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2013 he received the History Award...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...University of California Santa Cruz, and Eric Porter, a University of California Santa Cruz American Studies and history professor, take the title of their book from a five-movement Duke Ellington-composed...
1108 Dynamite Hill
Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265& Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...Atlanta. From Preface Today, American lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and queers can get married. We can find short-term special friends or life partners on our smartphones. We can venture...