"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...on television.36Delery-Edwards, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson, 50 (ellipses original); See also Townsend, Let the Faggots Burn, 184–185. Shortly after the Sunday evening Beer Bust on Sunday, June 24, 1973,...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...Raymond's book sales had dried up. He had no other career and no "day job." Since 1984, he had lived in Benny's summer studio in Athens, and although Raymond was...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...provision of better educational opportunities for their children, the adoption of up-to-date styles of architecture, the installation of indoor plumbing, and the purchase of automobiles, pianos, and other amenities. In...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Weekly 25, no. 1275 (June 4, 1881). Decoration Day, later known as Memorial Day, originated in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War as an annual observance in which each...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...Have linguistic differences become a proxy for articulating perceived racial distinctions? Are we witnessing the social construction of a distinct "Hispanic race," internalized by residents and articulated in everyday speech?...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...even know that people elsewhere all over the country was suffering from want." —Donald Harington’s “Vance Randolph” character in Butterfly Weed1Donald Harington, Butterfly Weed (New Milford, CT: The Toby Press,...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...from 2000 to 2005. He is the author of Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (2010) and Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...an Indian named Pentocolo, for example, operated simultaneously as a "Spanish ally and an English sympathizer" (143). Overview map of the Yamasee War, June 29, 2007. Map by Pfly. Courtesy...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...in the Knoxville Journal. An estimated 75 to 100 sticks of dynamite exploded throughout Clinton High School in the early morning of Sunday, October 5, 1958, over two years after...