The Shenandoah Valley
...park. Park promoters and historians for years tried to justify the taking by fabricating cultural, economic, social, and ethnic differences between the mountain and Valley residents. Mountaineers were stereotyped as...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...growth, performers and industry leaders tried to maintain a delicate balance between the sacred and the secular, between maintaining tradition and embracing professionalism. Reconciling these competing purposes allowed the genre...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...book, the problems it raises, and the ones that remain to be raised. Gwen Ottinger, whose 2013 book Refining Expertise performed a sharp analysis of discourse between local activists protesting...
Trouble the Land: Atlanta Student Movement
...who were so smug in their condemnation of our inaction. They’d say, "Listen, we’re freeing our nations. We’re leading revolutions. We’re escaping the yoke of colonialism. All of Africa will...
"Tell It": The Civil Rights Struggle in Tuscaloosa
...attacked TCAC-led activists on Tuesday, June 9, 1964. Giggie narrates how, day-by-day, tensions mounted between TCAC and the Tuscaloosa Police Department as protests against segregation and discriminatory practices expanded between...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...in] mapping with affectionate but unflinching accuracy both the back roads of Louisiana . . . and the distance between parents and children." Reviewing this collection for the Hudson Review,...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...untangle this apparently growing unease—and the adjustments to student assignment approaches that inflamed the debate—from the dramatic population shifts occurring in Wake County at this time. Between the 1980 Census...
Race
...look from an ivory spouse who is learning her husband's caesuras. She can see silent spaces but not what they signify, graphite markings in a forester's code. Many others have...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...since the 1960s, many locations in the Appalachian South, like rural and working-class communities across the nation, have experienced the rise of extreme economic inequality, and a growing divide between...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...becomes a medicine cabinet whose magic is the reparative line from photograph to artifact to blood code that describes a history, something that can now be remembered; the depth of...