Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...an overview of Gunnison's papers, see Charles McGraw, "Archives and Sources: The Papers of Foster Gunnison, Jr, and the Politics of Queer Preservation," History Workshop Journal, no. 65 (2008): 179–187. Across...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
On June 25, 2013 Chief Justice John Roberts invalidated the application of Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act in a five to four opinion of the US Supreme...
Encountering COVID
...me?" How many of those folks do you think I could help? Very few. And then the small businesses were calling and saying, "Senator, we're not eligible for PPP [Paycheck...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...checking to see what some place looks like now. But I don’t have a predetermined way to shoot. That would really bore me. I did almost all of the newer...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...the all-white Society for the Preservation of Spirituals, whose members had been "reared under the plantation traditions" and whose public performances and interpretations of African American spirituals as late as...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...freshman in college, I lived and farmed with my grandfather and grandmother for a year. I had a strong pull towards farm preservation and sustainability, probably because I realized how...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...soon congregated there helped spur the preservation movement largely responsible for sparing this historic district from the bulldozer revolution soon to scar many American cities. Saxon's appreciative writing also drew...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...is gentrification—but from black gentrifiers. In Crutcher’s eyes, the historic preservation movement, whose “architectural fetishism” would empty a neighborhood in order to rehab a building, has a lot to answer...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...and the preservation of the pure blood of our forefathers . . ."16George Thayer, The Farther Shores of Politics: The American Political Fringe Today (London: Allen Lane, 1968), 38. The...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...Seminole reservations and elsewhere in Florida. In 1836 when the tribe was forcibly removed from Alabama and Georgia to the present-day state of Oklahoma, the language moved into what was...