With the nation reeling from the cultural and political upheavals of the 1960s era, imaginings of the white South as a place of stability represented ...

This book brings together documents from multiple radical movements in the recent United States from 1973 through 2001. These years are typically viewed ...

Though it had helped define the New South era, the first wave of regional industrialization had clearly lost momentum even before the Great Depression. ...

In February 2010, with the help of a friend who works as a photographer with a National Geographic -sponsored cruise line, Justin Gardiner boarded a ...

Slavery on the Periphery focuses on nineteen counties on the Kansas-Missouri border, tracing slavery's rise and fall from the earliest years of ...

The American Adrenaline Narrative considers the nature of perilous outdoor adventure tales, their gendered biases, and how they simultaneously promote ...

The essay, as a notably hard form of writing to pin down, has inspired some unflattering descriptions: It is a greased pig, for example, or a pair of ...

Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within ...

In Creole Italian , Justin A. Nystrom explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. His culinary journey follows these ...

Catfish Dream centers around the experiences, family, and struggles of Ed Scott Jr. (born in 1922), a prolific farmer in the Mississippi Delta and the ...