Darkly
...a moment I can mistake myself for the redneck at the end of a joke. Every map is open but a man, and you can turn away before you see...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...multiple ways photography cuts through the flow of time. Mistakes in the developing process as well as time and illness mar the images of Larry’s naked flesh. As Mann’s famous...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...of her slip was showing when he recorded the moment: "I didn't want to be mistaken for a servant. Dressing well made me feel first class. I wanted to set...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...as any. The fluidity of American culture — and I think ultimately region in the United States must be defined not politically or legally but in the most inclusive cultural...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/resource/cph.3b47842. Equally impressive was the intellectual work of Mary Church Terrell, who in 1907 published "Peonage in the United States: The Convict Lease System and...
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
...eighteen turbines and generates a total capacity of twenty-nine megawatts, which is enough to provide power to about 3,800 homes. It is the only windfarm in the southeast United States....
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...representing a cure for AIDS. The sculpture intended to memorialize those affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic that led to 573,800 reported AIDS cases in the United States between 1981 and...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...the twenty-dollar bill from Andrew Jackson. Jackson contributed greatly to the expansion and development of the United States, Inskeep noted, but this "nation-building" occurred with devastating costs for Native peoples,...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...two esteemed and prolific scholars in the field, want to "refute the popular notion" that lynching was "unique or exceptional to the United States" (1). Yet, as with Lynching Beyond...
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...