Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...are many Americans and there are there is a great deal of pleasure in knowing that not only do they differ from one another but that Iowa and California are...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...of the local area. It contains elements of both traditions but is typical of neither. Other whole-cloth chintz quilts survive from this era, but they are rare. The quilt is...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 3.0. And in the final section—"How"—Dubcovsky examines the Yamasee War to articulate how communication networks operated (and didn't). As the war progressed,...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Arkansas, September 6, 1979. Courtesy of University of Central Arkansas Archives, Rackensack Collection. Brenda Smyth, Old chicken feed bags in garden with rocks on them as mulch, Searcy County, Arkansas,...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...this map, click here. At the most distant zoom level, only Stevens mills with significant union action are labeled. The larger the marker the greater the number of employees and...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...upper-class Americans who looked South for their musical roots and artistic inspiration.8According to W.K. McNeil, Will Wallace Harney's 1873 article, "A Strange Land and a Peculiar People," is significant "not...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...are in extreme poverty were in the South.2 The Southern Education Foundation's South includes fifteen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee,...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...to justify the loving of this particular couple as valid? For whom are the filmmakers making Loving and why are they placing this story of the past in our present?...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...in Anniston since the 1930s, and growing up, Mims and her family—mother, father, and twelve siblings—lived right near the plant. Her parents farmed land near a drainage ditch that carried...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...particular place can only produce a limited number of marketable artists) and, to a lesser degree, speculative exploration (that going to obscure places might yield a novel interpretation of the...