Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
Presentation Responses About the Speakers Kirk Savage is a professor of art history and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively on public monuments within the theoretical context...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...white Middletons. Whatever reservations some volunteers might harbor about Ashley's Sack, the object is treasured by professional staff at Middleton Place. A large reproduction is included in the Foundation's commemorative...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...in numerous galleries, including Get This Gallery, M Rich Gallery, Beep Beep Gallery, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Kibbee Gallery, and the Atlanta Preservation Center. In this clip, Dowda discusses her life-altering...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...historical mission through preservation of the cars. Nancy Marshall and John McWilliams, Award truck at Low Country Travelers car show, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, 2010. By-laws state that members must...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...online each month. This ever-growing collection is an invaluable source for students of Ybor City history and an excellent realization of the possibilities of digital image preservation and distribution. Burgert...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Archives; Rick Stamm, Keeper, Castle Collection, Architectural History and Historic Preservation Division, Smithsonian Institution; Wendy Kail, archivist, Tudor Place Foundation; Julie Miller, Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress; Special Collection Archivist...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...soon congregated there helped spur the preservation movement largely responsible for sparing this historic district from the bulldozer revolution soon to scar many American cities. Saxon's appreciative writing also drew...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
Review Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See presents a rhapsodic argument in pictures and words for the preservation, restoration, and reestablishment of longleaf pine forests across the areas of the...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...and bounce in this collection, in a city where these musics are so often segregated as something different––considered unworthy of preservation or protection and support as cultural heritage––cannot be overstated....
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...the Invisible Histories Project. They're an increasingly better funded network for generating new oral history narratives about LBGTI people in the South, as well as archival collecting and preservation. Something...