The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...turns out, the transfer of McDonald's son to Dinsmoor's care was not unique. In the decades following the US Revolution, a number of American Indian women and men and elite US whites...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...however, something unexpected happened. An African American named Brenda Ethridge stepped up to the microphone. She introduced herself as a descendant of Aunt Grace, the first slave owned by Chang...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...them from sleep. Before the dust had time to settle, reports began to come in of a second bombing, this time at the Jewish Community Center in Nashville. The explosion,...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...days at a time over the course of twelve summers and using the same actors throughout, we watch the maturation of not just a young man, but also his family...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...this decision was for many of us. It felt like it set things right for the first time in a long time. One of the passages I so admire from...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...something that was good. That's often the case with re-photographic diptychs. It's very time consuming to find exactly where you did the early shot, where you stood, and what lens...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...as a "confection": "Kara Walker has confected a Subtlety."12"Creative Time presents Kara Walker's A Subtlety," accessed June 30, 2014, http://creativetime.org/projects/karawalker/. The artist is a pastry chef, a candy-maker, a sugar...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...and San Francisco, where their visibility and numbers result in political clout and political influence. Greenwich Village in New York and the Castro in San Francisco were two models; pioneer...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...—David Wojnarowicz, Untitled (When I Put My Hands on Your Body), 1990 “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity,...