Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
...to the proposed mammy memorial in Washington DC, and the mammy figure within Lost Cause discourse. About Kimberly Wallace-Sanders Kimberly Wallace-Sanders is Associate Professor of American Studies and Women's Studies...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...the standard for courage and constancy, would first support Hillary, then switch to Barack Obama. For Hillary, observed an NPR commentator about this latest "battle of Selma," it's "almost like...
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to...
Darkly
...the streetlamps remember the light, gelid and thin as bacon fat, as the vowel in your mouth that just won't break, a door I can walk through, a room where...
Anniversary
Early, the city's empty, almost soundless, still. The air has a photograph's grain, a mist that's still deciding whether to rise or fall, and again, we're walking down Dexter, drawn...
Consolation
...not look at each other until the door closes out the moon, till the car starts cruising west back through the railyards, maybe catching Race Street to give the boys...
Laurel River, North Carolina
...over the Laurel River. This pour started about 3A.M. in an effort to keep the temperature of the concrete low so as not to cure too fast, Laurel River, NC,...
California Creek, North Carolina
...most beautiful view. So I'm excited about the first time I get to go up there on the highway and actually get to pull into the overlook. I can't comprehend...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...had liked to stop and "rest his eyes." When they pulled onto the dirt shoulder and stopped, Lydde saw at last what her uncle had been talking about, what had...
Whiskey and Geography
...the struggling American government by taxing whiskey, the plan met with open revolt. Farmers who had fought against the British, specifically against taxation without representation, wanted nothing to do with...