Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
Review Edward Comentale's Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song is the latest work in a growing corpus of vernacular American music studies that seeks to understand the relationship...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
Essay At historical plantation sites, where the subject of slavery is difficult to avoid, Park Service interpreters struggle to present the subject in the least offensive manner. Interpreters at Arlington...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
Review In this meticulously researched book, Katherine M. B. Osburn follows the history of the Mississippi Choctaws from the Antebellum era to the "Choctaw Miracle" of the 1970s, when this...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
Review: Something magical is on display in a tiny gallery at the University of Virginia Art Museum, a small selection of photographs that play off each other like the ingredients...
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
Video and Essay Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs. A short film by Steve Bransford, 2010. Since early 2010, Steve Bransford has been working on a documentary video portrait...
Place, Time, and Memory
Place, Time, and Memory Part 2: Christenberry discusses works that reveal the passage of time and the workings of nature upon buildings and landscapes Part 3: Christenberry discusses origins and intentions of...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations: Part 2: Sanchez explores the impact of Mexican immigration on construction work in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina Part 3: Sanchez...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
Introduction Popular American films and literature often depict tornadoes as distinctly midwestern phenomena: a girl in Kansas is whisked away by an afternoon cyclone, a pack of storm chasers follow...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
Review In the acknowledgements for The Accidental City, Lawrence N. Powell remembers that, after Hurricane Katrina, pundits asked why New Orleans should be rebuilt, when its site was clearly untenable...