Writing Appalachia
...ed., Coal: A Poetry Anthology (2006); and Anthology of Appalachian Writers (a journal-like, serial publication of contemporary Appalachian writing published by Shepherd University). Poet and scholar Jim Wayne Miller, ca....
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
..."listener" of complex national, regional, and local identifications has been a central, contested issue in radio scholarship. Susan Douglas describes the condition: [Radio's] technologically produced aurality allowed listeners to reformulate...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...A play cannot contain all of that process, all of the lives wasted in the attempt to build a certain political-social project. What a play can do is sharpen the...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Cajun country was settled by French speakers from Canada, and they absorbed and Cajunized their local Indian neighbors and the settlers who came later on from various parts of Europe...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...Ambiguous , Charleston, South Carolina, 2009. Photo: Rick Rhodes. Susan Harbage Page and Juan Logan, Portrait from Sexually Ambiguous, Charleston, South Carolina, 2009. Photo: Rick Rhodes. Alterations vary. In some cases...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...Maria Carter Syphax, ca. 1870. Bottom, Charles Syphax (1791–1869) and William B. Syphax, ca. 1865. Daguerreotypes by unknown creator. Courtesy of Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, ARHO 6408...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
Essay No Southerner by origin, Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. "As I am an ardent Californian," she has Alice B. Toklas say in The Autobiography, "and as she...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...New Lessons from an Old Exposure," American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 187, no. 11 (2013): 1178–85. Formal recognition required collective political intervention by coal miners themselves. Even as social and...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...term of derision, a specific identity, a verb. The word can summon all these thoughts and more, regardless of authorial intention; indeed, it can carry whatever freight we readers bring...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...1940. Collection of J.P. Godfrey, Jr. Without access to the archives or to oral historical records, a casual visitor to the bucolic campus of "Oxford College of Emory University" (as...