From The Editors,
2025
Journal of Appalachian Studies
From The Editors, Meredith Mccarroll, Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, Zada Komara
Art Faculty Publications
Anyone involved in academic publishing understands—to some extent—the time needed to solicit, compile, and edit a range of voices to create something worthwhile that holds together. To do so in collaboration as editors adds a layer of complexity. Here, we see that complexity pays off as Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth and Zada Komara invite multiple perspectives on material culture in Appalachian society into conversation in this special issue of the Journal of Appalachian Studies. It is an honor to be a small part of this work, carried out by the co-editors, whose introduction follows. I invite you, as you read, to contextualize …
Down The Bay Oral History Project Newsletter - Winter 2025,
2025
University of South Alabama
Down The Bay Oral History Project Newsletter - Winter 2025, Center For Archaeological Studies, Mccall Library
Down the Bay Oral History Project Newsletter
Public newsletter sharing information about progress and discoveries during the Down The Bay Project.
This Land Isn’T My Land: How Canonical Literature Has Shaped Representation In The Outdoors,
2025
Connecticut College
This Land Isn’T My Land: How Canonical Literature Has Shaped Representation In The Outdoors, Claire Himmel
American Studies Honors Papers
No abstract provided.
Wine As Gossip: The Making Of Living Objects And Human Experience,
2025
Connecticut College
Wine As Gossip: The Making Of Living Objects And Human Experience, Elena Angerman
American Studies Honors Papers
In this honors study Wine as Gossip: The Making of Living Objects and Human Experience, I argue that there is an inherent power to wine as a means to subvert the narrative of the current American myth. I emphasize how the living nature of wine reflects how objects can have a level of consciousness and power. In the opening chapter, “Gossip and Wine: Uncovering Forms of Resistance and Methods to Subvert and Revise Power Structures” gossip serves as a means to understand how wine can be used in this subversion. I argue that wine and gossip are linked in …
Updates: Bass Street Community At Fort Negley Park,
2025
Vanderbilt University
Updates: Bass Street Community At Fort Negley Park, Dr. Angela Suʃon
Profiles/Papers for the Nashville Conference on African American History and Culture
No abstract provided.
William B. Redmond (1909 – 1993),
2025
Tennessee State University
William B. Redmond (1909 – 1993), Dr. Learotha Williams, Jr.
Profiles/Papers for the Nashville Conference on African American History and Culture
No abstract provided.
The Circuitous And Meandering Road To Voting Rights: The 60th Anniversary Of The Voting Rights Act Of 1965,
2025
Tennessee State University
The Circuitous And Meandering Road To Voting Rights: The 60th Anniversary Of The Voting Rights Act Of 1965, Linda T. Wynn
Profiles/Papers for the Nashville Conference on African American History and Culture
No abstract provided.
Alfred C. Galloway And Community Federal Savings And Loan,
2025
Tennessee State University
Alfred C. Galloway And Community Federal Savings And Loan, Claudette Stager
Profiles/Papers for the Nashville Conference on African American History and Culture
No abstract provided.
African American Women And Public Transportation: Edna Smith And Her 1921 Defiance Of Nashville’S Racially Segregated Transportation,
2025
Tennessee State University
African American Women And Public Transportation: Edna Smith And Her 1921 Defiance Of Nashville’S Racially Segregated Transportation, Linda T. Wynn
Profiles/Papers for the Nashville Conference on African American History and Culture
No abstract provided.
Recognizing Speculative Literature: Conceiving Identity In The Archives Of Enslavement,
2025
Saint John's University, Jamaica New York
Recognizing Speculative Literature: Conceiving Identity In The Archives Of Enslavement, Gabriella Greco
Theses and Dissertations
One of the key problems of the archive of enslavement, borne out of the violent erasure of enslaved identities, is the struggle to reconstruct and honor those lost identities. Recognizing Speculative Literature: Conceiving Identity in the Archives of Enslavement investigates postcolonial archival processes and the resulting documents to identify a spectrum of speculative literary genres that can be used to supplement traumatic archival erasures, often of female voices and identities, to further understand the power dynamics. To clarify, I use the term ‘speculative literature’ here to refer to a mode of literature that relies on the few fragments that may …
More Bookman Than Bookerite: William Stanley Braithwaite And Poetic Stereotypes,
2025
Clemson University
More Bookman Than Bookerite: William Stanley Braithwaite And Poetic Stereotypes, Susanna Ashton
Publications
William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962) began his life with printed words as a printer’s apprentice with Ginn and Company in Massachusetts. Unlike Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, William Dean Howells, and Mark Twain, all of whom began their meteoric literary careers by typesetting, Braithwaite’s rise was thwarted by the cultural stereotyping around race. It isn’t surprising, therefore, that throughout his career as anthologizer, publisher, poet, critic, and Boston Evening Transcript columnist, William Stanley Braithwaite used his facility with type to inform valuations of narrative and language with an eye not to race-blind aspects of literature, but to ways race might be recognized …
Let This Be The Death Knell For American Exceptionalism,
2025
St. John Fisher University
Let This Be The Death Knell For American Exceptionalism, Mark Rice
American Studies Faculty/Staff Publications
This essay argues that with the 2024 reelection of Donald Trump as president of the United States, the concept of “American exceptionalism” should be put to rest once and for all. The essay traces some of the history of the idea of American exceptionalism, paying particular attention to how it has been deployed in American political rhetoric over the past twenty years or so. During Trump’s first presidential campaign, some observers noted that Trump was the only major political figure who did not embrace the idea of American exceptionalism, noting that then-President Barack Obama, as well as Trump’s fellow Republican …
Folklore And Region In Actual Play Podcasting: An Interview With Clint And Griffin Mcelroy,
2025
Old Dominion University
Folklore And Region In Actual Play Podcasting: An Interview With Clint And Griffin Mcelroy, Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth
Art Faculty Publications
The article focuses on the rise of "actual play" podcasts like The Adventure Zone, which use tabletop roleplaying games as a medium for storytelling. Topics include the show's engagement with Appalachian folklore, the emotional depth of its narrative themes such as memory and loss, and its representation of West Virginia's cultural landscape.
Introduction: Beyond Hollow Materialism,
2025
Old Dominion University
Introduction: Beyond Hollow Materialism, Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, Zada Komara
Art Faculty Publications
This introduction to the special issue, “Transformative Approaches to Materiality in Appalachian Studies,” provides theoretical background and examples that demonstrate applications of new material culture and materiality theory to key Appalachian studies themes. It offers new directions for the study of material entanglement in social relationships by reviewing the history of material culture studies in the Appalachian context, fundamental theoretical propositions emerging from the “material turn” in social theory, and examples drawn from ethnographic and archaeological research into the patterns of use of material culture in the timber country of West Virginia and coalfields of eastern Kentucky. Finally, this introduction …
Keepunumuk: Teaching The Deconstruction Of The “Myth Of The First Thanksgiving”,
2025
Parkland College
Keepunumuk: Teaching The Deconstruction Of The “Myth Of The First Thanksgiving”, Pierce Thompson
A with Honors Projects
The goal of this project was to volunteer to teach a reading activity for elementary school students about the indigenous peoples (Wampanoag) contact in 1621 from the indigenous perspective and deconstruct the “First Thanksgiving myth” using the book “Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story” published on August 2, 2022, by authors Danielle Greendeer, Anthony Perry, and Alexis Bunten.
Cold War Karl Mundt: The Utility Of Anticommunism During The Eightieth Congress,
2025
University of South Dakota
Cold War Karl Mundt: The Utility Of Anticommunism During The Eightieth Congress, Wattier Zachary
Dissertations and Theses
This thesis examines South Dakota House Representative Karl Mundt during the Eightieth Congress and his role in helping to build a movement and consensus over domestic and international communism. I argue that not only did Mundt help facilitate the Second Red Scare that allowed for the “McCarthyism” of the 1950s to thrive, but Mundt also aided in selling a combative diplomacy towards the USSR which intensified relations into a Cold War. As a ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mundt advocated for the use of soft power, education, information, and propaganda to sell his idealized Americanism to …
[Review Of The Book The Pioneer And The Innkeeper: Adventures In Uncertainty And Faith Around The World, By C. & M. Wilson],
2025
Old Dominion University
[Review Of The Book The Pioneer And The Innkeeper: Adventures In Uncertainty And Faith Around The World, By C. & M. Wilson], John E. Snellings
Department of Family and Community Medicine Faculty Publications
[First paragraph] The full breadth and powerful impact of family medicine as a global specialty is on full display in The Pioneer and the Innkeeper: Adventures in Uncertainty and Faith Around the World. In this compelling memoir, readers follow the life and career of Dr Cal Wilson, a family physician and global health expert, as he and his family pursue medical missions across the world. Not to be outdone by her husband, Mimi Wilson’s life story is co-featured in the book, and her own heart for service (in forms slightly different from those of her husband), create a dynamic …
Iii.B.2 Educational Barriers,
2025
Wofford College
Iii.B.2 Educational Barriers, Kim Rostan, Bria Harper, Rylee Jorgensen
Crafting Democratic Futures
The document examines how historical segregation and systemic racism have shaped educational disparities in Spartanburg County, highlighting persistent inequities in school resources, teacher pay, and student outcomes. It concludes that these historical barriers continue to influence academic performance and post-secondary enrollment, with schools serving more diverse populations often facing lower proficiency rates despite high graduation rates.
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program 2025,
2025
University of Southern Maine
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program 2025, University Of Southern Maine
Commencement Programs
University of Southern Maine Commencement Program 2025
Pressing Matters: American Print Culture And The Development Of Proto-Romanticism,
2025
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Pressing Matters: American Print Culture And The Development Of Proto-Romanticism, Daniel Young
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
This thesis explores the distinctive features of post-independence American print culture and their influence on the emergence of American Romanticism. Advancements in printing technology, the establishment of paper mills, and the proliferation of newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets created a dispersed and unrestricted print environment. This accessibility allowed for a dynamic exchange of ideas, disseminated revolutionary concepts, and cultivated a unique American ethos characterized by individualism and intellectual freedom. Key works such as Washington Irving's The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. and Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland and Edgar Huntly illustrate how early American Romanticism evolved to reflect the unique American …
