History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...Champagne Girl, and Alouette LeBlanc the Tassel Spinner, so named for her skill at "twirling in opposing directions four tassels attached to her breasts and buttocks" (167). Campanella introduces a...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...Windsor, Ohio, in the far northeastern corner of the border state, near Lake Erie. He was indentured as a servant from his childhood until he turned twenty-one, working in brutal...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...exactly where I was standing when it all sunk in. I was photographing in Mississippi in early March 2020, on spring break from teaching at Duke, my near annual pilgrimage...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...movement by educating generation after generation of students and have been doing so for nearly forty years. We have attained about ten graduating cohorts of undergrads so far. This is...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...Liquor. This interview took place on the porch of Andalusia, the home of Flannery O'Connor near Milledgeville, Georgia. Part 2: Hill discusses repetition in Blood Ties, his discovery of Milledgeville, “The...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
...she has published two pieces, Elegy for the Native Guards and Theories of Time and Space. About Jake Adam York Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father and his mother, a history teacher, Jake Adam York studied architecture and English at Auburn University. He received an M.F.A. and...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
..."long history of stylistic exchange and mutual influence" with black gospel music and their near parallel commercial development during the early and middle twentieth century. A segregated society and record...
Bricking the Church
...wash of gravestones west, they've buried the wooden snow that answered sarvis in bloom and early morning fogs, in brick, a crust the same dull red as clay in nearby...