Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...that were exclusively or almost entirely white men, enormous numbers of additional people participated in the War effort, including approximately 200,000 Black soldiers who served in the Federal army and...
Besieged Terrain
...of a railway line built twenty-five miles away. Timber speculators bought up large tracts. The Mowbary and Robinson Timber Company out of Cincinnati acquired what would become the Robinson Forest....
Sonic Zora in Florida
...mule tale retold breaks by the fourth verse onto another plane, away from the arrival of the "blue-eyed baby," the product of probable betrayal and potential racialized sexual violation, away...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...on Highway 441, four miles outside of town. Visitors must traverse a four-lane highway of sprawl to reach the entrance to the farm across the road from the Comfort Inn....
Quilting Conversation
...Bend, Alabama, artists including Loretta Pettway and Emma Lee Pettway Campbell that are now part of the museum's collection. Outliers, History Refused to Die, and the High's newly reopened permanent...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...Strengthening those bonds within environments that allow for economic autonomy seems like a way of creating space between people and the nation-state. It might also offer a way to endure...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...power and wealth. In framing social change in this way, Beck is able to demonstrate the impact of Native Americans on their social structures as well as the limits placed...
The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...Dan Albergotti lived in St. Matthews until age four, when his family moved to Florence. Albergotti currently directs the creative writing program at Coastal Carolina University in Conway. He earned...