Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...disparate strands of evidence in Spanish, English, French, and indigenous language sources into a larger tapestry characterized by the irony of communication, she leaves a number of loose ends. Mentioning...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...grown up in America," and that this lost nation resided deep inside Mammoth Cave, "whose hermetically sealed floors have preserved the bones of lost nations as perfectly as the dry...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...these populations in cities such as Los Angeles. While Behnken finds some evidence that "the dividing lines between black and brown may be starting to erode" (236), he argues that...
Palomares Bajo
...Mishap in Spain Detailed," Los Angeles Times, 24 August 2003, at http://articles.latimes.com/2003/aug/24/news/adfg-nightmare24 (accessed 2 March 2011). Perhaps the only American review, it recycles the clichés about this "sleepy" "corner of...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...its entrenched positions within cannon range of Atlanta, and the Confederate Army of Tennessee had lost a tenth of its fighting strength.2Gary Ecelbarger, The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...Loss in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Multiple Working Hypotheses," Estuaries 20, no. 1 (1997): 1–13. Wetland loss between 1956 and 2008 near Delacroix, Lousiana. Slides from Southeast Lousiana Flood...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
Review I recently went to an opening-night screening in West Los Angeles of Richard Linklater's latest film, Boyhood. This was no red-carpet affair. There were no designer gowns, photographers, or...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...racial disparity burdens only a small number of minority voters in a small, rural polling place, does the relatively "small" size of the harm argue against a finding of a...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
Introduction Don Candelario and a vegetable truck from The Guestworker, 2007. Charles D. Thompson, Jr., writes about agriculture and migration and has co-produced two documentaries on the subject: Brother Towns/Pueblos...