"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...June 23, 2019. Video still by Steve Bransford. We used new video and audio recording technologies to capture elements of the experience of the hollow square. Our recording equipment included...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...they please," and were encouraged to "bring your snap beans or other vegetables to prepare for the next day's meals." In 1977, original owner Sonny Stevenson sold the Moon-Glo to...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...the schoolhouse door to decry federal encroachment on state sovereignty and to protest the admission of two Black students to the University of Alabama, which had a total enrollment of...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...savage Indian [emphasis in the original] no longer roams untrammeled over our forest" and none remain "in our soil to harass our citizens and retard the growth of our country."96"Cherokee...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
Introduction Map of Yoshio Koya's destinations, 2011. From February to April 1950, the head of the Institute of Public Health in Tokyo, Yoshio Koya, was sent by the US-led Occupation...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...to Mississippi. In addition, most other Mississippi poultry operations in the area began their own recruitment efforts in Florida and Texas. One plant offered to pay $600 to any employee...
Encountering COVID
...cultural issues to have direct, one-on-one contact with the individuals we serve. After the two weeks of stay-at-home, we opened the office back up. My husband used to work at...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...University of Toronto Press, 1995). Informal communications with lesbians who later moved to Atlanta from other parts of the country confirm these written sources with regard to the dates of emergence...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...There are no algorithms to match users: instead, Grindr participants initiate contact with (or reject) each other based on one profile photo, about 50 words of text, some drop-down menus,...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...are ready to go out there and do it?" Every officer raised his hand. Straight from the station house, police units fanned out to all eight of the schools on...