Down From the Mountain
In Beyond the Sunset: The Melungeon Outdoor Drama, 1969-1976, Wayne Winkler delves into how the civic leaders of isolated Hancock County took the story of its marginalized mixed-race residents, the…
To Memphis at 200
By the time Memphis was founded in 1819 on the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, its inhabitants had already become “a confluence of multiple voices with diverse perspectives,” editors Karen…
The Truth Shall Set You Free
The horrors of the Tennessee Children’s Home Society — Georgia Tann’s adoption mill that flourished in Memphis from 1924 until Tann’s death in 1950 — are now well known. Less…
When First Love Could Kill
In 1983 Ronald Reagan was president, Stonewall was ancient history, and AIDS only a rumor of a strange “gay plague.” It was an intoxicating, perilous time to be a teenager…
In Pursuit of the Common Good
…when we die, we go to heaven when we’re born.” Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew up in Memphis and has earned degrees from Northwestern, Columbia, and Vanderbilt…
Wrong About Appalachia
…long history of that in Appalachia … certain regions and certain people just absolving all of the country’s sin so people can continue to feel self-righteous and progressive.” Lyda Phillips…
