Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...in 1932, "growing tired of these big city lights / tired of the glamour, tired of the sights."3Jimmie Rodgers, "Miss the Mississippi and You," recorded August 29, 1932, Victor 23736,...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...eds. Beverly Diamond and Robert Witmer. (Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1994), 175- 176, 181. The Tennessee Jamboree must be understood in the broader context of the barn dance genre, and...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Land Policy Review 3 (Jan.-Feb. 1940): 4-5; Daniel, Breaking the Land, 170-75. For the economic shape of rural re-development in the Bootheel, see Roll, Spirit of Rebellion, 116, 161. In...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...over the centuries.6Magee quoted in Freeman, "Journey of the Spirit." Interview with Gwen Magee and Larry Morrisey. Personal interview. Jackson, Mississippi, March 29, 2007. Gwen discusses the difficulty of capturing...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...March 22, 1958; and "Presented in Charity Show [Mitch Thomas photo]," Philadelphia Tribune, April 22, 1958. The fan gossip shared in these columns documented the growth of a youth culture among...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
Essay Jesse P. Karlsberg, Aaron Kahn of Paris, France, leads a song at the first Ireland Sacred Harp Convention, Cork, Ireland, March 6, 2011. On March 3–6, 2011, 150 people...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...vivid examples of the consequences of ignorance come from the history of diseases."1Peter Burke, Ignorance: A Global History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023), 189. COVID-19 is a current case...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...endless pain/And in immense perdition sinks the soul."3Ibid, 15. Oxford, Georgia: The College Campus Edward Lloyd Thomas (surveyor), Plan of the Town of Oxford, Georgia, 1837. Courtesy of Emory University...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...and Boundaries for Slave Family Formation: Tobacco Labor and Demography in Pinar del Río, Cuba, 1817–1886," CLAR 29.1 (2020): 139–160. A reflexive piece that considers how sugar's ascent has shaped...