Endeavors magazine: Browse Arts and Humanities Stories

Browse Arts and Humanities Stories

• general arts and humanities
• cultural studies
• drama and dance
• history
• language and literature
• music
• philosophy
• religious studies
• visual arts

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general arts and humanities

• The Paper Docs: The past is in their hands. (fall 2007)
• Sticker Nation: Being hip is not enough. (winter 2007)
• A Culture Shaped by Faith: Hoodoo, church, and spirituality in African American fiction. (fall 2006)
• Between Sinner and Saint: America's original evangelical. (spring 2005)
• Stitching History: A quilt documents the story of African-Americans. (spring 2005)
• Stewards of the Land: Spending time with people who farm. (winter 2004)
• Riches from Russia: An exotic book collection makes its way to Carolina. (fall 2003)
• Cherokee Trails: Have you ever wished you could go back to the time before roads, cars, and cities? (spring 2003)
• Art Reclaimed: Grad students help catalog ancient artifacts. (spring 2003)
• Planets Imagined: Francesca Talenti’s award-winning animations. (spring 2003)
• Cherokee Ceramics—The Old Way: Cherokee potters return a Carolina favor. (winter 2003)
• Which Jefferson?: A playwright finds drama in the patrimony question. (spring 2002)
• Just As She Pleased: Austrian Empress Maria Theresia reworked a palace—and the role of royal widow, too. (winter 2000)
• Dialogue: Should government provide funding for the arts? (spring 1996)

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cultural studies

• Bill Ferris and the gut-bucket blues. (fall 2009)
• Hip-hop at the Crossroads: Freestylin’ in Clarksdale, Mississippi. (winter 2007)
• Streaming Flicks of Punks and Potters: Online films from the Folkstreams folks. (spring 2006)
• Jewish with a Drawl: From sweet potato kugel to Sabbath fried chicken, cooks mixed two cultures. (winter 2006)
• As Welcome as the Water that Runs: A seventeen-year friendship between scholar and source. (spring 2005)
• America’s Guitar: C.F. Martin and his legendary guitar company. (fall 2003)
• Selling a Star: The invention of Delores Del Rio. (fall 2001)
• Bedazzled and Beguiled: Fashioning a new Japan. (fall 2001)
• Pistol Packin’ PR: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. (winter 2001)
• A Momentum of Perception: An artist unmasks old notions of mammies and minstrels. (winter 2001)
• The Coming and Going: Why did 170 Scottish farmers emigrate to North Carolina in 1884, only to turn around and leave? (spring 2000)
• Heartstrings: Philip Gura has written the first comprehensive history of this simple instrument which became a cultural icon. (fall 1999)
• The Right to Die: Peter Feline writes a "cultural history of the right to die in America." (spring 1999)
• Soft Fuzzy, Hard Sell: How TV’s cutest characters pitch what kids will buy. (spring 1999)
• Speaking in Tongues: As he studies black culture, Michael Dyson speaks the languages of academic, public intellecutal, and minister. (fall 1995)
• The Fine Art of Fired Clay: A profile of Charles Zug, a folklorist who studies the art and culture of folk potters. (fall 1995)

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drama and dance

• From Page to Stage: A novice playwright tackles a modern classic. (fall 2007)
• Dramatic Ability: Raising the curtain on disability. (fall 2002)
• A Drama Restored: The Colony’s comeback. (fall 2001)
• True to His Words: Drama by the book. (fall 2001)
• Dressing a Drama: Bobbi Owen makes it real. (spring 2001)
• Dancing out of Square: From two-step to Tush Push, country is anything but made to measure. (spring 2000)
• Islam’s Peaceful Dancers: Sufis weave a spiritual tapestry of music, meditation, and verse. (fall 1998)
• Daring to Dance: In Cali, Colombia, "you dance with the grandmother, the kids, the broom, everything and everybody." (winter 1997)
• Bringing History to Life: The Institute of Outdoor Drama teaches communities how to attract more visitors by dramatizing local history. (fall 1995)
• The Lively Legends of Pontius Pilate: A graduate student examines how Pilate is portrayed in literature, history, and drama. (fall 1995)

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history

• More than Biltmore: A historian sets the story straight about blacks in a mountain town. (fall 2009)
• One Man’s Civil War. (winter 2009)
• The Letters he Kept: A suitcase full of Holocaust memories. (winter 2009)
• Murder in Moscow: A guy walks into a bar and finds his wife with another man… (spring 2008)
• Mites among the Machines: Day and night, children toiled in North Carolina’s textile mills. (winter 2008)
• Beyond Empire: Uncle Sam’s long shadow. (fall 2007)
• Owning up to a Violent Past: North Carolina newspapers admit fanning the flames of Wilmington’s 1898 race riots. (spring 2007)
• N.C., A to Z: Everything North Carolina. (spring 2007)
• Sputnik Generation: Soviet baby boomers talk about their lives. (winter 2007)
• Freeing a History: The hard fact of slavery at UNC. (winter 2007)
• Jefferson vs. Washington: Spirited revolutionaries. (fall 2006)
• A Long-Buried War with the Moros: Tim Marr's research into the history of anti-Muslim ideology uncovers a little-known past and its lessons for a troubled present. (winter 2006)
• They Dared to Learn: A book documents African Americans' struggle for the freedom to learn. (spring 2005)
• A Light in History's Dark Houses: In an old torpedo factory, Gerhard Weinberg discovered Hitler's second book. For decades, it languished. But Weinberg did not. (spring 2005)
• Her Wicked Pen: Mainstream feminists were absolutely furious at her, but Jane Swisshelm was a woman determined to make her mark on the world. (winter 2005)
• Gospel’s Crop of Souls: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age. (fall 2004)
• The Cruiser Sweet Pea: The men who took her to war. (winter 2004)
• Horsepower Heaven: Long before NASCAR, horse racing was Carolina’s hottest ticket. (spring 2002)
• Scenes from a Winery: Sketches of rural North Carolina. (spring 2002)
• United by Stories: A community deals with difference. (winter 2002)
• What is Sacred?: Sacred Native American sites. (winter 2002)
• Isle of the Storm: How do Cuba’s hurricanes affect her people? (fall 2001)
• American Places : Personal interpretations of the significance of place. (spring 2001)
• The World as it Was: Not since 1874 has an atlas made so much history. (fall 2000)
• In Their Words: A project gives new voice to the stories of slaves. (winter 2000)
• The Right to Die: Peter Feline writes a "cultural history of the right to die in America." (spring 1999)
• Soft Fuzzy, Hard Sell: How TV’s cutest characters pitch what kids will buy. (spring 1999)
• Laced, Cinched, and Bound: Has each era’s fashion shaped women in its image? (spring 1999)
• Axe Murder Echoes: Setting the record straight on the legend of Frankie Silver. (winter 1999)
• Why She Sank: Was the USS San Diego blown up by a German spy? (winter 1999)
• Sound Effects: Bland Simpson’s Into the Sound Country is a mural of memories and history, a meander into the country east of Raleigh. (spring 1998)
• The Color of Honor: The Exclusion of Black Soldiers from the Medal of Honor in World War II. (winter 1998)
• General Disagreement: Thomas Buell, writer in residence in history, gives his view in his book The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War. (winter 1998)
• Daring to Dance: In Cali, Colombia, "you dance with the grandmother, the kids, the broom, everything and everybody." (winter 1997)
• Comfort Women: A UNC undergraduate provides a voice for unheard victims of World War II. (winter 1997)
• A Wiser Lafayette: Lloyd Kramer’s Lafayette in Two Worlds portrays the French aristocrat, political activist, and military leader as a mediator in many different realms: between Europe and America, political ideals and romantic ideals, and men and women. (fall 1996)
• The Lively Legends of Pontius Pilate: A graduate student examines how Pilate is portrayed in literature, history, and drama. (fall 1995)

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language and literature

• Hemingway, Line by Line. (spring 2009)
• Beyond Baldwin’s Fire. (fall 2008)
• A Girl’s Life and a Glass Half Full: Sugar and spice, but not everything’s nice. (spring 2008)
• The Magic Man: Daniel Wallace became a big-time novelist one sentence at a time. (winter 2008)
• Transcendental Optimism: The most fascinating -ism in American culture. (winter 2008)
• A Collection of Appreciations: A poet plays favorites. (fall 2007)
• A First with No End: A rediscovered African American novel. (fall 2006)
• Opening a Well of Secrets: A researcher dives into his family’s hidden past. (spring 2006)
• Love in the Middle Years: Poems by Alan Shapiro. (spring 2006)
• Terror in Another Language: Can Americans grasp the atrocities of other places and times? Madeline Levine is working on it. (winter 2006)
• The Good in Bad Girls: A pizza-parlor argument provokes a Ph.D. student to turn a boy's fable into a chick flick. (fall 2005)
• Unlocking the Door: Ellie and the burning chicken plant. (fall 2005)
• An Ax Murder that refuses to die. (fall 2005)
• The Final Solution: Christopher Browning’s book on the origins of the Holocaust. (spring 2004)
• Headed for Freedom: Lunsford Lane was an employee of the North Carolina governor’s office and a tobacco dealer. He was also a slave. (fall 2003)
• Reach Beyond The Strong: When it comes to literary criticism, Trudier Harris-Lopez pulls no punches. (winter 2003)
• Ghost Ship: The mystery of the Carol A. Deering. (winter 2003)
• Was The Author A Slave?: Sleuthing a slave narrative. (fall 2002)
• Pious Poetry: A literary and theological analysis of poems on Christian themes. (spring 2002)
• Everything but Dogs: A sidekick for Southern lit. (spring 2002)
• From a Silence Like Stone: A prison notebook unburied. (winter 2002)
• A Fling with the Press: A writer in the making. (winter 2002)
• After Life, Words: Life-giving poems. (fall 2001)
• Coming Into Her Voice: Writing to grow on. (winter 2001)
• Kick Off Your Shoes: How to Have a Happy Childhood. (fall 2000)
• Words and Blood: The Gullah people and their African heritage. (spring 2000)
• Notes on a Napkin: Poet Michael McFee is having too much fun at work. (spring 2000)
• Birthing Stories: You’ve probably heard bits and pieces of your birth story: what time you were born, how much you weighed. But what about the rest of the story? (winter 2000)
• Race and Repentance: A book on southerners who grew up white and racist—and were converted. (winter 2000)
• Your Village, My Village: For Michael Chitwood, poetry blooms from the ordinary. (fall 1999)
• At Last, a Guide to Style Online: A book for citing material found online. (spring 1999)
• Axe Murder Echoes: Setting the record straight on the legend of Frankie Silver. (winter 1999)
• A Dose of Fiction: Works like Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde sometimes reveal what history books can’t. (fall 1998)
• Horror’s Story: Fiction’s darker side projects the anxieties of an age. (fall 1998)
• Words from a War Zone: Conflict in Eastern Europe has splintered more than land—languages, too, have come apart. For a linguist like Robert Greenberg, this is where the action is. (spring 1998)
• Sound Effects: Bland Simpson’s Into the Sound Country is a mural of memories and history, a meander into the country east of Raleigh. (spring 1998)
• Citizen Arendt: Hannah Arendt: An Introduction and Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics. (winter 1998)
• Out of the Understory: James Seay’s poems have a storyteller’s voice, but they’re not just talk. (fall 1997)
• Remapping the Mainstream: The Oxford Companion to African American Literature guides readers through a varied terrain. (fall 1997)
• When Students Talk, Words Get a Life: Ted, from wasted, means "drunk," and intellectual hour means "soap opera time." So says Connie Eble’s book. (winter 1997)
• It’s Down to Earth for Gertrude Stein: A biographer charts the reality behind a legendary life. (spring 1996)
• The Lively Legends of Pontius Pilate: A graduate student examines how Pilate is portrayed in literature, history, and drama. (fall 1995)

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music

• How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Left at West 42nd; right at 10th Ave; right on West 57th; right on 7th Ave. Or do what Mayron Tsong did. (winter 2009)
• Portrait in Jazz: Composer Stephen Anderson looks for the spark. (fall 2008)
• A Renaissance Superstar: Cultural performance brings a forgotten actress back into focus. (spring 2007)
• Phonograph Effects: From Brahms to Beastie Boys, how records changed music forever. (winter 2007)
• A Public Passion: Beethoven’s subversive symphonies. (fall 2002)
• The Number Pusher’s Song: Pin everything down. Then let it fly. (fall 2000)
• Dancing out of Square: From two-step to Tush Push, country is anything but made to measure. (spring 2000)
• Heartstrings: Philip Gura has written the first comprehensive history of this simple instrument which became a cultural icon. (fall 1999)
• Let it Rock: Analyzing pop music. (winter 1999)
• Story and Score: A cellist reclaims long-silent works, giving voice to the stories behind them. (winter 1998)

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philosophy

• The X-Philes: Taking philosophy to the streets. (fall 2008)
• Coming to Terms with Life: What if it’s all one big cosmic joke? (spring 2003)
• The Heavyweights in Small Doses: Simon Blackburn has an exercise program for you. (spring 2000)
• How to Grow a Human Being: E.M.Adams believes that because modern Western civilization places so much emphasis on wealth and power, our civilization may be on a self-destructive course. (spring 1998)
• The World According to Sports: Sports provide exercise for the participants and entertain the spectators. But Jan Boxill believes they also help shape the way we see the world. (spring 1998)
• Teaching Without Preaching: Warren Nord argues that you’re required to teach students about religion if you teach them things that are hostile to religion. And yes, he says, it is possible to teach the subject without trying to convert a soul. (fall 1996)

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religious studies

• Asking Why We Suffer. (fall 2008)
• Lift up Thine Eyes: Hollywood: not just for sinners anymore. (spring 2007)
• Misquoting Jesus: Bart Ehrman's twenty-five year journey. (spring 2006)
• Decoding Da Vinci: Fiction and Fact in The Da Vinci Code. (winter 2005)
• By the Dead Sea: Qumran’s keepers of the scrolls. (winter 2004)
• Islam’s Peaceful Dancers: Sufis weave a spiritual tapestry of music, meditation, and verse. (fall 1998)
• Staying Power: A lot of people have master’s degrees, six-figure salaries, and MTV. But they’re not letting go of their faith. (fall 1998)
• At Last, Iran: Carl Ernst takes a trip to look into the status of the once-mighty Persian language. (fall 1996)

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visual arts

• Global Exposures: Some Carolina travelers take their best shot. (fall 2008)
• The Simple Life. (spring 2008)
• Image / imagined: Three Carolina artists show their work. (fall 2007)
• Face Value: The photography of Don Sturkey. (spring 2007)
• A Gentle Revolutionary: Why would Edith Branson’s paintings still be under the bed? (winter 2007)
• Love through the Lens: A photojournalist brings the focus home. (fall 2006)
• Critter goes Mud Racing. (fall 2006)
• This Golden Glow: What happens when we look at thirteenth-century art through twenty-first-century eyes? (spring 2006)
• Doubly Exposed: Peter Filene plays intention against chance. (winter 2006)
• Notes from Home: An artist revisits his roots on a Cree reservation. (winter 2005)
• The Family Cow: An art student documents a dilemma. (spring 2004)
• Sky Lights: Johnny Horne’s celestial photos. (winter 2004)
• Depth of Field: Photos we couldn’t resist. (fall 2003)
• Tension in a Circle of Serenity: Jeff Whetstone’s animal art. (spring 2003)
• Picturing Cuba: E. Wright Ledbetter’s photos of Cuba’s people. (spring 2003)
• Moments of Light: Creating space for contemplation. (winter 2003)
• A Momentum of Perception: An artist unmasks old notions of mammies and minstrels. (winter 2001)
• Home Semisweet Home: Young artists, old eyes. (fall 2000)
• Sweetness with a Kick: The photography of Bayard Wooten. (spring 1999)
• Pain for All to See: An anesthesiologist looks at art that smarts. (winter 1999)
• Rugby for Her?: "The Sporting Woman" exhibit shows off a long history of women in action. (winter 1998)

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