Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...in Society Hill, Alabama, ca. early 1980s. Courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat Possum Records. Green Paschal Green Paschal, Talbotton, Georgia, 1969. Photograph by George Mitchell. © George Mitchell. Born...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...doubled, at once opening and closing, losing and then finding itself in its own cheap performance" (180). These kinds of juxtapositions are the crux of what Comentale identifies as "vernacular...
Writing Appalachia
...of activism. bell hooks, Madison, Wisconsin. Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Archives. Having explored the stories of Appalachia that we wanted this anthology to tell,...
Religion and the US South
...South was the movement of increasing numbers of settlers into backcountry areas of Virginia and the Carolinas after 1750. Attracted by inexpensive land, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Separate Baptists from the northern...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...hearth thesis from the 1960s.2Jack P. Greene, "Colonial South Carolina and the Caribbean Connection," in Jack P. Greene, Imperative Behaviors and Identities: Essays in Early American Cultural History (Charlottesville: University...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...H. Green; Harriet (born 1873) marries William Gray; Bryson Chase, (1876–Dec 1964), worked as a messenger and married Isabel Milton Culp. E. Charles and Susan Tinney's daughter Rachel Ann V....
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...the readers of traditional scholarly publications. Atlanta-based Mindpower Inc., where I'd worked prior to graduate school, produced the earliest design for Southern Spaces: sage green and orange, with a compass...
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...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...
The Crowd He Becomes
...arrive, the state patrol arrives with bayonets instead of hoses, bayonets instead of dogs, while congregants arrive between firemen and plainclothes Klansmen and the children, the children arrive and depart,...