Book Review – A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands by Benjamin Hoy
by Amy Ruckes This article first appeared on U.S. Studies Online on March 24, 2023. Check out the U.S. Studies...
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On The Menu (2022): The Authority of the Chef, Accompanied by a Breach of Trust
by Philine Schiller The Menu The chef claps once, and the room falls silent. The chef gives an order...
“High on the Hog”: Cultural Productions’ Reckoning With American Food History and Its African/American Roots
By Philine Schiller Eating high on the hog signifies status: leave the cheap meat to the others, the higher up...
Crime, Class, and the City: Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle (2021)
by Valentina Lopez Liendo Where do you go as a writer after being awarded back-to-back Pulitzer Prizes? Somewhere where you...
Writing The Modern Mother: The Complex Struggles of Motherhood in Brit Bennett’s The Mothers (2016)
By Johanna Decker Mothers have served as some of the most beloved heroines, but also as some of the most...
The Lord Is A Man of War: A Review of James Byrd’s A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood – The Bible and the American Civil War
by Edward Manger In October of 1994, a group of historians gathered at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary to participate in...
Reading Colson Whitehead
By Valentina López Liendo Colson Whitehead is perhaps most widely known for his latest two novels The Underground Railroad (2016),...
Seven Books for a Literary Lockdown, from Ancient Classics to the End of the Universe
By David F. Eisler Well, it’s been a year. For the last nine months, we have all been living with...