And the Prize Goes to...
...asked the students to seek methodological innovations in the newest southern studies scholarship. Students looked at articles published in peer reviewed print and online journals, as well as long form...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
Photograph of Rosa, Miguel and their son. Global Lives, Local Struggles (Documentary footage used in this essay was provided by William Brown, Director, Living Across Borders.) Part 2: Dr. Odem describes...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
Writing Appalachia
...region's literature isn't available. Poems, short stories, and novels are available electronically from a myriad of websites; however, even today's computer-savvy readers and students can flounder when the material they...
Besieged Terrain
...a hard sell for students in Reece's nature writing course who'd rather not part with the Internet, cell phones, and cable television. One young woman tried to persuade her ride...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...descent. With collections numbering in excess of ten million items including books, manuscripts, correspondence, personal and professional papers of individuals, archived records of Africana institutions and organizations, as well as...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...one of the matriarchs of the African American community of Newton County, Georgia, as she led me and my students in 2000 across the Oxford Historic Cemetery. She pointed out...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...with a publicly facing, state-of-the art COVID-19 data display epitomizes what the agency had neglected. Instead, other data visualization websites, most notably Johns Hopkins University's dashboard, served as the go-to...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...of the Great Depression—just as the PHS dismantled a number of pilot projects designed to provide mass treatment to syphilitic blacks. Although many of the initiatives undertaken in Hot Springs...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...towns. Gentrification is occurring, but the area remains relatively cheap, isolated, hard to get to, and modest, especially outside the historic districts and areas close to campus. And somehow, within...