Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...budget. Federal promises in the 1890s to develop an elaborate Rural Free Delivery system failed to materialize. Dixie Highway details how Good Roads activism (fueled by a fragile coalition of...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...are traces of this universe. Gunnels: Lucía from Nevada and María Luisa from Bayamesa really move me because of the way they confront their worlds, hostile worlds, but always with...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...Rabinovitz describes the early twentieth-century amusement park as "an Erector-set world of mechanical thrill rides, shows of human and animal oddities, saloons and swimming pools, beer gardens and ballrooms, restaurants...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...configurations that were and are common in the singing convention world that dominated southern gospel in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. But professional southern gospel has always...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...of my contacts, serves as a guide to the continuity of self-sufficient traditions in the Ozarks. The research foundation for this essay consists of archival data collected in and about...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...this world do not want a camera in their home, or anywhere near. The necessity to fictionalize came up early on as I was thinking about what do I do...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...of Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He continues writing about the life and work of Woody Guthrie and has two essays on Guthrie awaiting publication: "Talkin' World Revolution:...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...that seeks to emphasize the modern dimensions of vernacular American music before, during, and immediately after World War II: Patrick Huber, Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...turns out, the transfer of McDonald's son to Dinsmoor's care was not unique. In the decades following the US Revolution, a number of American Indian women and men and elite US whites...