Dr. Dan Margolies  ø  Batten Associate Professor, History Dept., Virginia Wesleyan College

ø    Office phone: (757) 455-5716    ø     email: dmargolies@vwc.edu    ø   Office: Blocker 15   ø

 

President McKinley’s first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border at Del Rio, Texas c. 1900

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-102870

 

Publications:

 

My first book Henry Watterson and the New South:  The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization  was published by the University Press of Kentucky in Fall, 2006. 



 

Here are some of my recent articles and reviews that are available online:

"Latino Migrant Music and Identity in the Borderlands of the New South," Journal of American Culture 32:2 (June, 2009): 114-125. links to  PDF or HTML 

 

“Plight of the Honeybee” (review of three books on colony collapse disorder) Virginian-Pilot 25 January 2009, p. 7,8.  pdf

 

2009 Review of Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory's Edge. Anthropology Review Database.

 

 Traditional Music Collections Online,” Old Time Herald 11:8 (2008)

 

2009 Review of A Massacre Foretold. Anthropology Review Database.

 

“Sé Que Voy a Regresar: Migrant Music and Globalization in the Nuevo South” American Studies 31:1 (May, 2008): 1-24.   

Tradition and Music in a Globalized Perspective, or Considering Banjos and Kayagums in Seoul,” Korea Fulbright Review (2008): 25-29.

Review of Geoffrey Perret, Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power into a Threat to America's Future (H-Diplo)

My op-ed about playing music in Korea: "Making Music and Sustaining Tradition," The Korea Times, 12 June 2008

"Robert E. Lee: Heroic, But Not the Polio Vaccine," Reviews in American History 35.3 (2007) 385-392 available here online.

"Polkas, Polkas, y Mas Polkas: The Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio" Old Time Herald 11:3 (2008) PDF

"Molly O’Day and the Gospel in Old-Time Country Music" Old Time Herald 11:2 (2007) pictures and a portion of the article available here online

Review of Dreamworlds of Alabama for the Anthropology Review Database (ARD)

Review of John Coski's The Confederate Battle Flag in the Journal of American Culture (June, 2007)

 Review of Helen Duffy. The 'War on Terror' and the Framework of International Law (H-Diplo).  

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Review on two new books on the Globalization and the South "One New World Order and Many New Souths" (H-South):

My article about the music and religious community at Wayne's ("Saturday Night at Wayne's Body Shop") was published in the Spring 2004 issue of the Old Time Herald.  pdf

In Winter, 2005 the Old Time Herald published my article "Ladder-braced Guitars and the Enduring Mysteries of the Old-Time Sound." 

My article, "The Sandia Hots: Spicing Up Old Time Music with the Flavors of the Southwest" was the cover story for the June-July 2006 Old Time Herald

Here is my online guide to the John Donald Robb Field Recordings Collection.

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(This is the self-aggrandizing portion)

"Bee Season," by Alexis Waller, Portfolio Weekly 5 June 2007

Virginian-Pilot Compass article about my book, March 4, 2007

As quoted in an article on Ralph Stanley and the Roots of Bluegrass in the Denver Post 

Virginian- Pilot article about me and the beekeeping program at VWC