In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...American history. She was born one month after the ill-fated mass escape of enslaved people on the schooner The Pearl, the largest attempted self-liberation event in antebellum US history. She...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...before choosing a direction and setting out to escape. The landscapes through which you navigate are beautifully rendered films, accompanied by sounds from the Virginia fields, forests, swamps, and woods....
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...to appreciate smelly old books, discolored newspapers, and indecipherable manuscripts. I blame my parents—after all, they planted the seed that is now blossoming into full-blown archive fever. #DareToBe promotional materials,...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...the singing schools as crude. Musicians such as Lowell Mason (1792-1872) began an ardent campaign against the singing schools and the kind of music they promoted. Mason and the "better...
Local Color
...color writers might be seen as promoting a separatist view of region through their attention to difference and unique detail, but they might also be seen as arguing an early...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...the Schomburg Center and now at Howard University and the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center has been guided by these principles. Archival institutions are best known as repositories of records documenting the...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...us that the best we can do in most cases is piece together bits of information about the lives of others. Given this incomplete knowledge, we're better off not passing...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...works seem to have been unable to avoid using the form not only to promote their way of life but also to express their deep anxieties about it. Plantation Romances...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...Today, the area has become a prominent suburban enclave near Atlanta's urban center. Celebrated landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted drew the original plans for Druid Hills in the late nineteenth...