A Conversation with Digital Historians
...literature of natural language processing because I don’t have the time to do it effectively. While I know enough about the text mining work that I’m doing right now in...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...and the boatment who transported trade goods in the American colonies. As a study of the trade from the perspective of non-Natives, the book provides a useful comparison to the...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...But, at the same time, each of these images invites us to look at Appalachia—to see Appalachia and what it signifies in this particular image. These multiple, at times contradictory...
Deep Ellum Blues
...in the 1960s and 70s although I did not recognize it as such at the time. It was simply an old cluster of small houses and farms gathered around a...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...politics with a local voter. Then Taylor heads underground: "For in the cave you forget that there is an outer world somewhere above you. The hours have no meaning: Time...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Digital Good Times on racial dynamics in Atlanta’s technology scene. Together, these events introduced Gallery 72 as a vibrant canvas to a new audience. LiFT artist Tim Short discusses his artwork with two event attendees,...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Mayday, plattin' the pole, and then they'd have this certain kind of beat, this certain kind of sound…it's a good time sound. There's a lot of fingerpicking along with the...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Mississippi Delta
...and by the time of the Civil War, Wade Hampton III owned 900 slaves on property scattered over two Delta counties. Greenwood LeFlore was another successful planter, a Choctaw who...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...women especially, who find ourselves as artists woefully under-resourced in our diverse locations, nonetheless committed to developing what seems, at times, to be an impossible practice. To do this, I...