New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...change, and water protection" (213). Philadelphia Standing Rock, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 26, 2017. Photograph by Flickr user mobili. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. By the end of the Rethinking,...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...Opening Title Sequence Concept," (Proposal presented at the Original pitch proposal produced by Elastic.tv and Antibody for the title sequence from True Detective, March 9, 2014), http://www.scribd.com/doc/211405775/Original-Pitch-for-Title-Sequence-from-True-Detective. An oil refinery...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...performance. Had the role been played by a younger, less well-known actor, it would have highlighted the randomness of Northup's delivery from bondage. This problematic choice to cast Pitt (perhaps...
Congregation
...let go: a pile of photographs— fused and peeling—water stains blurring the handwritten names of people she can't recall; a drawer crowded with funeral programs and church fans, rubber bands...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...up and out behind him. He fell slowly onto the small of his back. His legs flew straight up and bounced to the pavement. He writhed as blood poured from...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...and prayers for justice. 1 p.m. - Pre-Reenactment rally. Invited guest speakers will include national and local Civil/Human Rights activists, clergy and political leaders. Narrator, Mr. Robert Howard, Walton County...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...reviewed by the editorial board. AtlantaStudies.org also offers a gateway to several projects and resources. Current featured projects are the ECDS's Battle of Atlanta smartphone-accessible tour; the Peoplestown Project about the...
The Liminal Site
...Vulcan statue. In 1924, when America's leading landscape architecture firm, Olmsted Brothers, put together their proposal A System of Parks and Playgrounds for Birmingham, they recommended this area be part...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...appliquéd cotton, with cording. 82"x18". Collection of Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson. Purchase, with funds from McCravey Fund, 2013.014. Photograph © 2014 Gil Ford Photography. Detail photograph by Dave Dawson Photography. On...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...There were thematic and regional volumes, too, such as The Oregon Trail. Produced by an agency of the WPA called the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), the guides were widely praised....