Deep Ellum Blues
...L. McDonald, Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion, 1870-1925 (Dallas: The Dallas Historical Society, 1978), v. Almost nothing, neither geography nor government, constrained the growth of the city, and it...
Cajun South Louisiana
...ca. 1900. Postcard book by Jean S. Kiesel. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Bottom, Cutting sugar cane in Louisiana, ca. 1880–1897. Photograph by William Henry Jackson. Courtesy...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...prison for a crime that did not occur. With a defense team led by the International Labor Defense (ILD), a close affiliate of the US Communist Party, in contentious association...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...empty basketball court. Playground and Shell Refinery, Norco, Louisiana, 1998. Photograph by Richard Misrach. Courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; and Marc Selwyn. © Richard Misrach....
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909), 177, quoted in Len Gougeon, Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990), 33. Henry L....
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...settled in the rapidly growing city of El Paso in 1909. El Paso, Texas, ca. 1910. Postcard photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of the Southern Methodist University DeGolyer Library, Real...
Our Backward Revolution
...Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1933–45 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955), 171. Parking Lot, Hillsborough, North Carolina, 2016. Photograph by and courtesy of Tom Rankin. Over...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...drowning, including always myself.”8Shepherd, “Why I Write,” Orpheus in the Bronx: Essay on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), (188–198), 188. It...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...it begins with composer Joel Pickard's opening number: acoustic guitar with cello underneath when the camera pans over family photo albums and helps viewers understand the chronology they're about to...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...and families, cities and states, region and religion. In Southern Prohibition: Race, Reform, and Public Life in Middle Florida, 1820–1920, Lee L. Willis has written a short but incisive look...