This issue of the Appalachian Review (formerly Appalachian Heritage) features fiction from Gavin Colton and Christopher Labaza creative nonfiction from Jacquelyn Scott and Michael Dowdy poetry from Jeremy Paden, Rebecca Lilly, David S. Higdon, Jaycee Billington, Ace Englehart, Katy Luxem, and Adam Moore an interview with poet Marianne Worthington, ......
Essays, films, and other work featured in Analog Cookbook 5: * "@Katsakh" Interview with Chantal Partamian * "Typefilm" Essay by Joao Reynaldo * "Open Source Analog Resources" Interview with Matt McWilliams * "Building an R8 Optical Printer" Guide by Sandy McLennan * "Lights, camera, hair!" Interview with Tristen Ives * "Silver Gelatin ......
From the mid-nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century, the combination of racial segregation and environmentally unregulated industrial capitalism produced outsized environmental risk exposure for poor and working-class Detroiters. In recent decades, as the auto industry abandoned Detroit, the banking and real estate industries worsened those ......
From the mid-nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century, the combination of racial segregation and environmentally unregulated industrial capitalism produced outsized environmental risk exposure for poor and working-class Detroiters. In recent decades, as the auto industry abandoned Detroit, the banking and real estate industries worsened those ......
Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It
The global doubling of human life expectancy between 1850 and 1950 is arguably one of the most consequential developments in human history, undergirding massive improvements in human life and lifestyles. In 1850, Americans died at an average age of 30. Today, the average is almost 80. This story is typically told as a series of medical ......
Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as We Know It
The global doubling of human life expectancy between 1850 and 1950 is arguably one of the most consequential developments in human history, undergirding massive improvements in human life and lifestyles. In 1850, Americans died at an average age of 30. Today, the average is almost 80. This story is typically told as a series of medical ......
In this book, Lindley S. Butler traverses oft-noted but little understood events in the political and social establishment of the Carolina colony. In the wake of the English Civil Wars in the mid-seventeenth century, King Charles II granted charters to eight Lords Proprietors to establish civil structures, levy duties and taxes, and develop a vast ......
Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss
Between 1861 and 1865, approximately 200,000 women were widowed by the deaths of Civil War soldiers. They recorded their experiences in diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and pension applications. In Love and Duty, Angela Esco Elder draws on these materials-as well as songs, literary works, and material objects like mourning gowns-to explore white ......
Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement
In their darkest hours over the course of the twentieth century, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and Fannie Lou Hamer gathered hundreds across the United States and beyond to build vast, now forgotten, networks of mutual aid: farms, shops, schools, banks, daycares, homes, health clinics, and burial grounds. They called these spaces ......
