Brushes with War
...federal officer, while the other places distant Union captives at the painting's edge, intermingled with their captors. One drew immediate praise and recognition, jumpstarting Homer's illustrious career, while the other...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...number about 200, and the casual quarterly meetings are attended by a mix of academics and members of the public. The first annual Atlanta Studies Symposium was held at Emory...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...North Carolina, ca. 1930–1950. Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of the Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the time...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...A History of Its Major Programs, 1932-1961 (New York: Carlson, 1989). On the Scottsboro cases, see Dan T. Carter,Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969);...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...work since 2004 with a square camera. There are only so many things you can do with a square medium format camera. I've had someone tell me it's evident that...
"Aint that Something?"
...fill of Canard County," fifteen-year-old Dawn Jewell proclaims in the opening cartoon panel of Trampoline (1). Canard County is a fictional county in Eastern Kentucky. It's rural, poor, and white....
Mississippi Delta
...appeared in the region in this period, including Chinese, Jews, Italians, and Syrians. Top, Side view of Malmaison, historic home of Greenwood Leflore, Carroll County, Mississippi, ca. 1923. Photograph by...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...most notorious gadfly, is the most prominent and caustic critic of McQueen's nearly universally lauded film. White's opinions aren't frivolous and uniformed, and it isn't simple trolling when he calls...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...form the central pillars of University of Texas at Austin doctoral candidate Aaron Reynolds' work, as he reconsiders the early twentieth century in "Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over...
When the Border Crossed Me
Video Charles D. Thompson, Los Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time, 2014. Reflection My border odyssey began in 1985 on a farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina. On a hot summer...