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...our website, updated our audio and video, and significantly expanded our readership. As an online journal working at the intersection of a number of scholarly disciplines, we find ourselves in...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...Hutchison instead offers a number of "themes"—all significant and important—that emerge from Apples and Ashes, including the transnational nature of Confederate literature, the cosmopolitan aspirations of Confederate writers, and the...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...to national and transnational trade: "It has always been exceedingly difficult to ascertain the exact number of slaves in the Southern states; the usual estimate is about four and a...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...number of short pieces are joined to augment the width, and one of these has a small irregular patch, suggesting mending of some previous damage. The backing was still too...
J-Mill on Regulating
...unique twist has been added that distinguishes the Miami style of DJing from others around the country." "While some DJ's rely on their ability to cut records with their unique...
Sweep
...Hammond, who will think too slowly and turn his Air Force jet into the Arizona desert, and Don Appleton, who will drive out on a country road for a shotgun...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...century. A fragment dating from about 1750, found at a Charleston archeological site, is the earliest evidence of the tens of thousands of bandannas imported into this country. By the...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...the country's premier sites for the purchase of fat hogs, ready for slaughter. But as the pork industry integrated vertically, fewer local farmers bred pigs, and eventually the auction house...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
Debby Holcombe, Cover of booklet for "Georgia Harmonies: Celebrating Georgia Roots Music," 2012. Image courtesy of the Center for Public History, University of West Georgia. On April 14, the exhibition...