Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
...brief history of Andersonville Prison and the Battle of Petersburg Part 5: Wood suggests theories for the diverging sets of planks in the lower portion of Homer’s painting Part 6: Wood ponders...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...as a site of complex, overlapping, and sometimes contradictory social politics. Café Lafitte in Exile, the oldest continuously operating gay bar in the United States, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 17,...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
Introduction Many of the novels that we call plantation romances also bear a different name: we know them and see them discussed as "Anti-Tom novels," written implicitly or explicitly to...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (Washington, DC: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1972); Gusterson, Nuclear Rites; Peter Bacon Hales, Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project (Urbana: University...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...poet whose work critiqued the Revolution and its leaders in his moment, 1967–68, leading to his arrest, torture, and subsequent exile to the United States in 1980. Padilla worked many...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...United States free of debt, Francisco decided not to pay a coyote (or a "pollero" as some border crossers call them) to help him get from Santa Cruz, Guatemala to...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
..."Review: 'Cruising' maps the cultural history of L.A.'s hookup spots," Los Angeles Times, July 3, 2019, https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-review-cruising-alex-espinoza-gay-history-20190703-story.htm. In short, cruising persists as a culturally relevant practice in the United States...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
Introduction At high noon, Nashville time, on Monday, May 17, 1954, all nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington joined in a declaration that legally-sanctioned racial segregation...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...the twenty-dollar bill from Andrew Jackson. Jackson contributed greatly to the expansion and development of the United States, Inskeep noted, but this "nation-building" occurred with devastating costs for Native peoples,...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...https://southernspaces.org/2021/undoing-voting-rights-act/. Justice Alito's Remarks from the Bench about how racial bloc-voting "may be due to ideology." Merill v. Mulligan oral argument. Audio courtesy of the Supreme Court of the United...