Author: Kevin Farrell Radford University Download PDF version This study begins with Rhiannon Giddens’ 2018 show at the Harvester Performance Center in Rocky Mount, Virginia. A small venue—maximum capacity 460—specializing in Americana acts, nostalgia tours, and cover bands, the Harvester...
Download PDF version 57 years ago, on August 28, 1963, in the very same place where the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln a century before, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historical public speech known as “I Have...
Download PDF version When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people has...
Download PDF version ESPAÑOL Download PDF version ENGLISH (translated by Cristina Stolpovschich) Few writers have managed to unite in their person adjectives as disparate as egotistical, misogynistic, self-centered, arrogant, but, at the same time, combative, brave, lover of life and...
Download PDF version Fireworks, parades, family reunions, political speeches, ceremonies… The 4th of July, day in which the Declaration of Independence was approved back in 1776—despite the fact that this document was actually ratified on the 2nd—has been held as...
On June 18th, 208 years ago, the War of 1812 was declared. Why was this war important? you might ask. Last night, as I was watching Chapter 4 (Season 1) of the Amazon Prime Series The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel, one...
Download PDF version We are glad to liven up your quarantine by bringing you a review of the third volume of the academic journal USAbroad. This is an Italian, peer-reviewed journal published annually in English by an editorial board of...
Al Pacino and Logan Lerman hunting Nazis: that should be enough to convince you to watch Hunters, but there is more to it than catchy, star-studded advertisement promises. Set in the America of the 70’s, the brand-new Amazon Prime Video’s...
For our first book of the month recommendation, I picked one of my favorite interdisciplinary essays on the American West as a fundamental pivot in the shaping of American history and national image. Kicking off with the origins of the...
