Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...his 1852 visit that "Mammoth Cave is as large as a county, but having another county on top of it, it is not represented, I believe, in the Kentucky Legislature....
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...shrouded in smog looms over it. It's a busted up Emerald City, desaturated and toxic, an unreal city in an industrialized Oz. HBO has three shows set in Louisiana: Treme,...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...horror is real and persistent, especially if you try to ignore it. About the Author Daniel Pecchenino is a lecturer in the writing program at the University of Southern California....
Congregation
...sign my name in the book, write R0470—his number— and agree to a search, I stand as if I would make a snow angel in the air, and the woman...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...was man-to-man — a turf war over beer sales, I'd learn later. I was amazed with how many terms for street shootings we have in New Orleans. Though I knew...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Challenge to Us All to Continue Our Quest and Pursuit of Justice. Information Moore’s Ford Bridge Lynching is the last unsolved mass lynching in US History! $35,000 Reward for info...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...colleagues in our partner institutions are supportive and in many cases doing equally impressive work in the field." A Joint Project with Other Universities and Organizations AtlantaStudies.org is guided by...
The Liminal Site
...to sit, the most liminal place in the whole liminal site. My physical pleasure—visual, auditory, and tactile—in the urban space is inseparable from my pleasure in the place from which...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...not only is meaningful but is compelling, through its use of color, design, and/or subject matter—so that the viewer is not only engaged but is drawn into the work and,...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...City in the late Twenties, were more anecdotal reinvention than anything else. It is impossible to read them without concluding that Saxon had spent an idyllic childhood on this or...