The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...in quilts prior to the era. Chrome orange, a mineral dye, was frequently used as an accent in red and green quilts in the mid-nineteenth century. Construction: Mary's quilt is...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...potentially transcending a middle class life, and the National Organization for Marriage has fought against anything that even looks like gay marriage on the grounds that it might weaken an...
Mississippi Delta
...Plantation, Scott, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott. Courtesy of The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f8d7-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. Outside...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...American Routes' Nick Spitzer interviews Mike Cooley, Shonna Tucker, and Patterson Hood, February 9, 2011. http://americanroutes.publicradio.org/player/playlist/25905/hour1 Musically, over the last several years, the Truckers have been coming home more often....
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...of Washington Press, 2012). Sergeants using a DDT sprayer, August 15, 1951. Photograph by Flickr user otisarchives4. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. The core of Spears's book centers on...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...and Refinery, Mississippi River Corridor, Louisiana, 1998 from Petrochemical America, photographs by Richard Misrach, Ecological Atlas by Kate Orff (Aperture, 2012). © Richard Misrach, courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York;...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...of suffering under Epps. What follows are some of the most stunning and horrifying few minutes in mainstream film. Sarah Paulson as Mistress Epps and Lupita Nyong'o as Patsey, 2013....
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...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...July 28, 2012, 12 Noon First African Baptist Church, 130 Tyler Street, Monroe, GA 30655 (at Highway 11, Across from Church’s Chicken) Schedule 12 Noon - Church opens for meditation...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
Atlanta Studies website, 2015. Screenshot of Boyd Lewis's photo of Margaret Mitchell's apartment house. Courtesy of Emory News. The website includes Boyd Lewis's original article about living in Margaret...