Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...trying to be born, or a cow laid out in a barn stall, dying of milk fever, easily cured if a man hadn't wagered against his own dismal luck, waited...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...not implying that Tuan offers the only theoretical framework, but he certainly writes about mapping in very provocative ways. I think that I am becoming increasingly aware of how mapping...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...original writings and projects about the Atlanta region, resources for the region, and events such as quarterly meetups and an annual Atlanta Studies Symposium. Atlanta Studies is a collaborative effort,...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
...all his own fault, poor too long turns the smartest man to stupid, makes him see nothing beyond a short term gain, which is why I know more likely than...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...and 2016, are buried here too. The family cemetery is well-manicured and regularly visited. The pioneers who rest in the earth are rooted still. On Scott family land. Always, Scott...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...quiet house that today still stands in Traphill, where the Bunker clan, as a quintessentially American, multiracial family, was just getting started. Home of Chang and Eng Bunker, Wilkes County,...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...it as episodic or aberrant, something that occurred in but was not really of that place" (9). Long attentive to the history of white racial violence and lynching in the...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...Confederate literary nationalism. Hutchison's readings are consistently smart, provocative, and engaging. Apples and Ashes convincingly demonstrates the fundamentally transnational nature of Confederate literary nationalism and, arguably, nationalism more generally. It...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...her graduation photograph, "a mess." Although Ms. Groover and the school librarian smoothed her path the best they could, Ward locates herself at the margins, socioeconomically, academically, and culturally. She...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...nearly 200 slaves spread across three plantations, Custis lived a fairly comfortable life. Most contemporaries considered Custis an indulgent master, an assessment that both acknowledged him as a good person...