Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
Blog Post The activism of Appalachian women who took up the fight for justice in the 1960s and 1970s pulsed outward from a core ethic of care. Caregiving animated their...
Whiskey and Geography
...But they did so, even though their words rang with hypocrisy. Hosea Thomas' still workers in Endicott, (Franklin County) Virginia, 1915. The Martin, Rake, and Thomas families trace their origins...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...long, somewhat controversial tradition in southern literature, one that Richard Gray describes as "a familiar path in Southern writing, in search of the raw and marginal, disrupted lives presented in...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...other submission types are always welcome, we're specifically requesting blog post submissions to enable quick turnaround, as we anticipate publishing successful submissions during the fall 2020 election season. 2016 Moral...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...distances in search of new hopes, ideas, and personal freedom.” “The Land We Live in, the Land We Left” also engages the current immigration debate through a series of panel...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
Blog Post I recently bought a crumbling old house in a historically gay neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. I met my ex-lover in this house five years ago. At the time...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...in Memphis when she was thirty years old, then had her seamstress shop burned out in the Chicago fire of 1871. Tragedy only heightened her empathy for her fellow workers...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...that we’ve all experienced a tangle of time, a displacement from the normal markers and seasons, a confronting of the inequities that accompany a pandemic, a fuller view of vulnerability...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...