The Shenandoah Valley
...visitors. In local parlance to go "up the Valley" is to go south and to go "down the Valley" is to go north. In both cases the direction is relative...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and relief. Most importantly, the blues is both the cause of song and song itself, both an active emotion and its formal expression, and, in this, it blurs the boundary...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...It Were) the 'Negro Problem' in The Birth of the Nation," in The Birth of a Nation: The Cinematic Past in the Present, ed. Michael T. Martin (Bloomington: Indiana University...
The Liminal Site
...to sit, the most liminal place in the whole liminal site. My physical pleasure—visual, auditory, and tactile—in the urban space is inseparable from my pleasure in the place from which...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...in US households was relatively small, the study of their lives and their migrations is illuminating.8 It is impossible to fully assess the numbers of Native children "adopted" by US whites during...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...and current wealth, is taken from Chris Kromm, "The Art Pope Empire," Raleigh Indyweek, March 9, 2011, http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/the-art-pope-empire-media-outlets-think-tanks-and-election-machines; and Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis, "North Carolina's Tug of War," The...
The Carolina Piedmont
...in these rural communities and nascent towns. "The Piedmont is another land," wrote North Carolina journalist Jonathan Daniels in 1939. "It has always been a more serious minded land. [It]...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...ca. 1850. Illustration by Étienne Carjat. Originally published in weekly journal Le Diogène. Image is in public domain. With its early publication date and its tragic portrait of slavery's atrocities and effects...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...business claps its hands in satisfaction. What I'm thinking is what about—what about—what about— What about McWane Inc. in Birmingham, major manufacturer of cast-iron pipes, one of the country's worst...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...in Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas, and extended to the Pacific, with some populations in California.13Audubon, Quadrupeds, 125. The opossum—which is remarkably fecund due to its short gestation period and...