Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...at Florida International University. His first book, Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940, explores John Sewell's 1933 notion of Florida as "a playground for the Nation" specifically through his...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...of dancing to a triple meter. As the valse à deux temps tends to be a quick dance, involving almost constant turning, faster songs in triple meter, such as this...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...than those they already know — then I would never want to put myself in such a situation.)"99"Field Trip — Kentucky," 13. Cohen justified his trip with motives that transcended...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Koya’s trip to several states in the US South—Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, and North Carolina—and explores his observations of race relations in the United States with regard to public...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...Florida, May 15, 2010. Photograph courtesy of Flickr user inazakira. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. The author alongside Tennessee Williams, Gay and Lesbian Visitor's Center, Key West, Florida, March...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), 170. For antebellum Eastern Shore agriculture see "Sketch of a Hasty View...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
Mandeville Thum, Mouth of the Cave, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, 1876–1877. Introduction Geologically, Mammoth Cave is a network of underground caverns in central Kentucky believed to be the world's largest cave...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...The author's choice of Middle Florida makes sense considering the book's time frame: 1820-1920. From the Territorial era through the Great War (the other great war), Middle Florida commanded the...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...job and to function as engaged citizens of the global economy is honored and respected. "Looking Back and Ahead" offers our conclusion. Going South: A Trip to the Maquiladoras The...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...because it was unusual to me. I'd never seen any place like it in Florida. In 2004 I started a new photographic project called Primitive Florida. I felt that I...