Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...Michael Brown joins a small group of scholars who are re-engaging the United States, particularly the Anglophone American South, in conversations about African-Atlantic religions. He situates the South Carolina Lowcountry...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...that the people who sold him the tickets were scammers. The boat was over-crowded and in a dangerously poor condition. The deck began filling with Mekong water. Everyone screamed in...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...surging into and out of musical forms—decisively public forms—I am curious about how these processes work on a larger scale" (6). The author's particular interest lies in popular music's most...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...of the Midwest Punk Capital (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2018). On the relationship between the Akron scene and Kent State University, see Tim Sommer, "How the Kent State Massacre...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...well as to touristic representations of "quaint" Cajun life that have capitalized on Longfellow's imagery. "The Art of Depicting Scenery" "The Art of Depicting Scenery / L'art de piendre le...
The Shenandoah Valley
...a change in scope and scale. Larger and larger institutions opened business in the Valley throughout the twentieth century. DuPont, Coors, Tyson, Wampler, and Merck each have massive plants there,...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...and director Shelia Washington, Scottsboro, Alabama, 2011. Ellen Spears, Aggie Kapelma announcing the donation of David Scribner's papers, Scottsboro, Alabama, 2011. New Yorker Aggie Kapelma presented the museum with...