"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...keen observation and logic. For example, Wise argues that father "LeRoy and Will Percy shared a loving but not emotionally intimate relationship. Leroy had a business approach to seemingly everything...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...South Carolina's first congressional district voted to elect former Governor Mark Sanford to fill Congressman Tim Scott's seat in the House of Representatives. Last December, Governor Nikki Haley appointed Congressman...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...novels have failed to approximate what makes these books great: the language that layers detail upon idiom upon idea upon history, building up a story like paint on a canvas...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...to his Baptist identity: "renegade," "guerrilla," "outlaw," and one he used himself in a book title: "bootleg." Tom Rankin, Will Campbell, Mt. Juliet, Tennesee, July 17, 2007. In appearance, thought,...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...and other scholars have been so busy whittling away at that old standard story that today only a stump remains. Even the National History Standards, written and approved during a...
A Virginia winter, Amherst County, Virginia, 2008
The US South and the 2008 Election
...states. Gerald Ford of Michigan is the outlier, but he was never elected, only appointed. The prominence of the Sunbelt in the last forty-four years reflected the historic geographical shift...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...and appliquéing them onto a plain background, the maker simply sewed the lengths of cloth together to make a whole-cloth top. The construction technique links this quilt to the whole-cloth...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...Picture Arts and Sciences to review the veracity of the film. His approach reveals more than a director's preference for primary sources, more than the creation of authentic-seeming material to...