"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...characters. For example, although the bartender-manager was historically a gay white man in "a gay white man's community," he "was known to be especially friendly to all comers," regardless of...
Artist Repertoire Index
This list represents the songs George Mitchell recorded in the Lower Chattahoochee region between 1969 and 1982. Bailey, Golden (1976) The Buck The Dog John Henry Sally Got the...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...to listen to the work and let the [objects] share what they are willing. For example, the passbook is very delicate and this was the only page that would naturally...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...and conflicted past. Although simple in its presentation, using mostly large poster board and glass cases with a variety of historical artifacts, the purposes and stories presented in the exhibit...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...I set out to see the exhibit in New York I knew it would be ugly. I did not know it would also be chillingly, lyrically beautiful. And this beauty,...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...in eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia as they go about daily lives and leisure pursuits. He visits a local swimming pool, a baseball field, family gardens, a supermarket, and...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...remain a bit dubious about Hardwig's text selection principles. (That Kate Chopin is excluded from consideration here is baffling—especially given Hardwig's small sample size.) Finally, Hardwig struggles at times with...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...accounts of bondage, would hardly be expected to claim to be southerners and might understandably have identified themselves, once free, as radically "Different-From" the region where they had been denied...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
...the University of Georgia. He is currently working on a book on Indian removal. Previous books include West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (New York: W.W. Norton, 2014), A New Order...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...were previously everyday activities and practices—such as playing music in the streets. Even if new residents were initially drawn to the neighborhood for its traditions, they are not necessarily interested...