Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...Joy Lounge and presents an excerpt from Billy Jones's oral history. Billy Jones moved to Atlanta in the late 1920s. Following his military service during World War II, Jones...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...perspectives yield an increasingly complex sense of speakers and voices; as Looking at Appalachia contributor Lou Murrey explains in her commentary on May's project and several other online, collaborative photography...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...such public recognition of their services to the community is essential to raising public and private funds to support their services. I'm convinced that producing and presenting exhibitions, concerts, theater...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...followed the deaths of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. On July 7, 2009, twelve days after Jackson's death, millions of fans watched the homegoing service of the "King of Pop."...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...and other Kodaks. Many of these photographers owned their own studios or made photographs for local publications and other purposes. Their portraits and photographs of street scenes, church services, rural...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...South, which he co-edited with M. Thomas Inge; and The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor (2006). He also serves as associate editor of Studies in American Humor. His current...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Marihuana. The available evidence from New Orleans suggests otherwise.52The widespread digitization of newspapers and related online databases has undoubtedly made this evidence more accessible to researchers and reinforces the need...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...simply edited and reprinted wire service stories, then added a comment on the opinion page and a letter to the editor or two. So it is a little striking that...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
"Quilt given to Rosa Benson Snoddy by her mother & father when she married Col. Sam Snoddy. For Mary Kate Black." Whole-cloth chintz quilt, probably made by Nancy Miller...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
Review The thirst for information and the power of lies is "a very old problem," writes Alejandra Dubcovsky, yet Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South is more than...