Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
Review Few issues roiled the waters of America and the South more so than temperance reform. In "the Alcoholic Republic"—William Rorabaugh's felicitous phrase—the question of prohibition divided and defined individuals...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Work of Looking." Figure 6 (Top): Robert, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina, September 29, 2014. http://lookingatappalachia.org/south-carolina#/id/i9215392. Figure 7 (Middle): Brothers Ralph and Robert, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina, November 4,...
Roadside Architecture
...in north Mississippi and regionally around the rest of the "mid-South." I'd spent major portions of my childhood summers in North Carolina and lived in Texas as an adult, but...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...American Poets Prize, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the Fellowship of Southern Writers' James Still Award for Writing of the Appalachian South, the O. Henry Prize, and the Southern Book Critic...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...of lesbian-feminist communities in other urban centers in the United States. It is worth noting that this information contradicts received wisdom about the South, which holds that "things happen later"...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...a Sunday to vend vegetables and dance the Bamboula, squats in the park's southwestern corner, adjacent to the Municipal Auditorium. To jazz aficionados, it’s a spiritual site. Nowhere else in...
"Aint that Something?"
...more than five hundred mountains, encompassing more than one million acres of central and southern Appalachia" (Appalachian Voices). The mining has not only destroyed mountains and diverse forests, but ruined...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...by the health program of BRAC, a Bangladesh-based NGO. Bangladesh, the eighth-most populous country in the world (169.4 million people), is a developing country located in South Asia with a...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...County, West Virginia, for generations. "Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment" presents images taken in 2005 and 2006 during Dotter's trips to towns in eastern Kentucky and southern West...
Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies
Video Part 1b: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 2: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 3: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for...