Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
In Search of Justice Mother Jones once said, "There is no peace in West Virginia, because there is no justice [in West Virginia]." This is as true today as when...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...class struggle—and I could not. Because from the beginning of my graduate school education until today—that is, for the last 35 years— the majority of my teaching jobs have been...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...the nostalgic reminiscences of a collector's career. Roots music, both the new iterations produced today as well as earlier songs and styles that continue to circulate, is often placed at...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Smithsonian building, known today as "The Castle"? As is well established, enslaved African Americans worked on the construction of many buildings in antebellum Washington, DC, including the US Capitol and...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...profound, haunting irony, especially during the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Many white southerners today are citizens, even though their ancestors took up arms against the United States and by their...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...of Emmett Till (Mound Bayou: Mississippi Regional Council of Negro Leadership, 1956). Mound Bayou continues to exist today, though it grapples with the numerous contemporary challenges facing rural southern towns,...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...the country, founded in 1772 (known today as the Dumbarton United Methodist Church).2The church was formerly located on Twenty-Eighth Street between M and Olive Streets, N.W. (formerly Montgomery Street between...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...notions we imagined as utopia gave way instead to today's start-up mentality, the gig economy, and ballooning inequality. Many people whose opinions I value want the story of Athens to...
Writing Appalachia
...region's literature isn't available. Poems, short stories, and novels are available electronically from a myriad of websites; however, even today's computer-savvy readers and students can flounder when the material they...
Encountering COVID
...to have more value than it has today. I think in seven years, when I'm sixty-seven, I'm going to be a very popular lady at the ten-year anniversary. Q: As...