The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...Vice, April 13, 2017, https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/aemwqg/s-town-and-the-loneliness-of-being-gay-in-the-rural-south; Michael A. Lindenberger, "S-Town Humanizes the Haunting Isolation of Gays in Rural America," Dallas Morning News, May 3, 2017, https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/05/03/john-bs-loneliness-tells-us-homosexual-life-rural-america. ) Olin Long tells of...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...and torturous re-education camp. Đề stayed in this camp for ten years, facing starvation and exhaustion from intense physical labor. He was eventually allowed to leave Việt Nam and came...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...Fontaine Maury (scientist and naval officer from Virginia) and former Louisiana governor Henry Watkins Allen (12, 22). Wahlstrom revises earlier histories, engaging Andrew Rolle's The Lost Cause: The Confederate Exodus to...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...wedding photos, family photos, travel photos, scores of newspaper clippings, publicity material, ID cards, VHS cassettes of television appearances. His life was in those boxes, tucked away but ready for...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Cajun country was settled by French speakers from Canada, and they absorbed and Cajunized their local Indian neighbors and the settlers who came later on from various parts of Europe...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Career of Marihuana: Politics and Ideology of Drug Control in America (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1983); Dale H. Gieringer, "The Forgotten Origins of Cannabis Prohibition in California," Contemporary Drug Problems...
The Carolina Piedmont
...the fall line left the growing number of Carolina Piedmont farmers largely to their own resources and social arrangements in the root-hot-or-die decades. Although the Carolina Piedmont has shared in...
The Shenandoah Valley
...became a strategic theater of operations. In 1862 and 1864 major Union campaigns in the Valley aimed to capture or disable what was widely called "the breadbasket of the Confederacy."...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...careers of Fiddlin' John Carson, the Carter family, the Delmores and Vagabonds, and radio producer John Lair in relation to the modernization of the New South. He is not so...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...and it's—how can I put this?—you can work on a short story sentence by sentence almost the way you work on a poem. And you can micromanage it. You can...