Love and Death at Second-Line
...the day grown weary with sad joy wound down. Then above the din came the sounds of a scuffle followed by a single explosion, silence and then screams. My wife...
Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...to home, are linguistically bereft: there is no term to describe the successful interface of natural and built environs. Outside cities, we have any number of categories for describing natural...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Shuttlesworth, and Hosea Williams. Photographs locate the plaza as a site of repression and resistance. In one (Figure 55), a young black man's sign reads, "Are you proud of your...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...conventional life-sized bronze statues, Gay Liberation, in the United States and Karin Daan's triangular, pink granite Homomonument in Amsterdam. Later works include Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset's Berlin-based concrete cuboid/video...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...for cheap melodrama, but the point gets across: Mason loves and respects his father, but he isn't about to pretend that the past didn't play out the way it did...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...processes. In recent years, some Appalachian Studies programs have been closed, reorganized, and combined with other programs. Some have faced extreme cuts to their budgets. If the 1970s saw the...