Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
"Log Cabin design. Pieced by grandma Snoddy at home. Mother carried it when she went to housekeeping. Made before Mother married." History: The Log Cabin pattern first developed in...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...shooting pictures of southern rural poverty, and in 1970, the want remains. This is not a very promising place to make a life, no matter what the woman is carrying...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...healthcare law varies across place. The McAllen Public Library in McAllen, Texas recently won a 2012 Library Interior Design Award from the International Interior Design Association for their 123,000 square-foot...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...Rather than focus on musicians, promoters, and others associated with the music industry, Hopkinson draws upon interviews with an array of participants—including collectors of live recordings, urban wear designers, suburban...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...efforts to attract industry, the intermingling politics of race and class, and the urban-rural divide. Manganiello, however, much like Marc Reisner in his study of the American West, emphasizes water politics, encouraging...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...fueled a rigid racial order amid changing class alliances. For Jennison, the slide toward the sectional South of white rule, black oppression, and red removal was not inevitable but resulted from...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
Introduction Artists Susan Harbage Page and Juan Logan designed Prop Master: An Installation specifically for the Main Gallery of the Gibbes Museum of Art. In its totality, Prop Master constitutes...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...lowlands. In contrast, blacks were viewed as admirably adapted for it by providential design or the experience of living in Africa for millennia. Place—climate and landscape—was crucial to comprehending southern...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...and designed by Felix de Weldon—the sculptor famous for designing the Marine Corps War Memorial in Washington DC—the planned sculpture depicted a man, woman, and child reaching for a matrix...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...begins, in the north, at Troup County in Georgia and Chambers County in Alabama and then runs southward through Lee, Russell, Barbour, Henry, and Dale Counties in Alabama and through...