Appalachia, race, and pluralism
Evangelizing an Anglo equality (1883-1908)
New York City's cultural pluralists (1906-1930)
Reactionary regionalism versus critical quarterlies (1925-1945)
The social life of poetry
Racing the land with Jesse Stuart's Man with a bull tongue plow (1934)
"Authentic folk feeling" in James Still's Hounds on the mountain (1937)
Rebinding "The book of the dead" into Muriel Rukeyser's U.S. 1 (1938)
The tight rope of democracy and Don West's Clods of southern earth (1946).