Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...state's center of attention, amassing the greatest concentration of African slaves, capital accumulation, and political influence. For a state that reveled in drinking copious quantities of hard liquor, questions about...
Whiskey and Geography
...County, Virginia, author and filmmaker Charles D. Thompson, Jr. is the curriculum and education director at the Center for Documentary Studies and a lecturer in cultural anthropology at Duke University....
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...southwestern humor is an energetic process that destabilizes as well as it demarcates regionality. The South is seen as a moving target, progressing continuously into uncharted frontier territory, its center...
Work
Poem This poem was filmed at the Glencoe Mill in Glencoe, North Carolina in Fall 2005 by Chris Simms and Tom Rankin from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke...
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...
"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
...the road, he became the editor of The Chattanooga Times. There, he established himself as at the center of a network of southern journalists, education leaders, and politicians engaged in the...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
...of Georgia in 2010. He won the 2011 C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize from the Southern Historical Association and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic...
The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
...the Republican National Convention were being paid below minimum wage. Regular employees of Cleanevent USA, the company contracted to clean the convention center in Tampa, were paid the minimum wage...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
Review Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 17–May 13, 2007 ARC/ Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, France, June 20–September 9, 2007 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...that anything was possible. Geography mattered: the town’s distance from the urban centers of punk and new wave music gave people the space to experiment and play. Most University of...