Antero Garcia is assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. He is author of Good Reception: Teens, Teachers, and Mobile Media in a Los Angeles High School.

Jessica Baldanzi is professor of English at Goshen College, where she teaches comics and graphic novels, as well as recent American literature, media and popular culture, creative writing, and critical ...

Hussein Rashid is contingent faculty member at The New School and founder of Islamicate, L3C, a consultancy focusing on religious literacy and cultural competency. His work has appeared in Muslim World ...

Phil Wiggins is a blues musician, teacher, artistic director, and recipient of the NEA National Heritage Fellowship (2017), the highest honor the United States bestows on the Traditional Arts. He is a ...

Frank Matheis is a contributing writer for Living Blues magazine and publisher of thecountryblues.com. As a former radio DJ with WKZE and WVKR, he has produced award-winning radio documentaries.

In 1890, Mississippi called a convention to rewrite its constitution. That convention became the singular event that marked the state's transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth and set ...

Eden Wales Freedman is associate professor of English, director of diversity studies, and department chair of communication, literature, and arts at Mount Mercy University, where she also serves as the ...

George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels (1839) was the first collection of southern fiddle tunes and the only substantial one published in the nineteenth century. Knauff's activity could not anticipate our modern ...

In April 1967, a year before his run for president, Senator Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried ...