A Mess of Poke
...favorite dire warning comes from Wikipedia: The eating of limited quantities of poke, perhaps of the shoots, may cause retching or vomiting after two hours or more. These signs may...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...alternative to Stipe’s bouncy bass lines, offering up at times a dissonance that mimics a kid singing along to a her favorite pop tune. Stipe’s hooky bouncy bass, in turn,...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...and Lesley Sussman, Touched by God: Black Gospel Greats Share Their Stories of Finding God (New York: Pocket Books, 1998), 239. Showing great promise as a musician, Kee enrolled at...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Press, 2005); Mary Kay Ricks, Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad (New York: Harper Collins, 2007). As part of the great compromise of...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...River. As a political figure and entrepreneur, Jackson seized the opportunities found in the great southern forests.5American Lumbermen: The Personal History and Public and Business Achievements of One Hundred Eminent...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...an oath to my people. It is very appropriate then that from this Cradle of the Confederacy, this very Heart of the Great Anglo-Saxon Southland. . . . I draw...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
A few months ago, my husband and I moved from rural Arkansas to the great Atlanta sprawl and settled in Druid Hills, a neighborhood within walking distance of Emory University's...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) over the course of many years. Him and Her, Collage and Ink by Eric Solomon. Courtesy of Eric Solomon, 2014. Boyhood deals with space and time...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...like those gracing many of Charleston's historic homes, imply a Greek temple, symbolizing the culture celebrated by Euro-Americans for its democratic ideals. Ironically, these very columns recall how the forced...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...Urban History at Loyola University Chicago. His books and articles embrace multiple aspects of urban and American culture, particularly the history of various social groups in American cities since 1800....