Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...was African American. The stacked rows of small black boxes that support the platform suggest the unacknowledged role of African Americans in upholding this culture and sustaining its economic structure....
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...African American art, see Rachel Farebrother's The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance (London: Ashgate, 2009). Toomer claimed that he was a "new American," and wanted to be true to...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
Introduction Letcher County Judge, Carroll Smith, visits with local resident loading house coal. Letcher County, KY, 2005. Taking pictures in conjunction with Volunteers In Service To America (1968-1970), then continuing...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...in Atlanta, Jeff Drew's father, John (1908–1991), co-founded the Alexander Insurance Agency with the mission of providing affordable insurance to Black customers. While a Morehouse student, John Drew met Alfred...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...James "Big Jim" Folsom, said as much in 1962, after noting the presence of a large number of light-skinned African Americans in his audience. "There's a whole lot of integratin'...
The Chesapeake Bay
...they were not conservationists. They cleared lands and moved as necessary, their low numbers making little impact on the available resources (with the significant exception of white-tail deer which Indians...
Birth Right
...Midwives can provide services in the home at a fraction of the cost of a low-risk hospital birth. A study on the costs of maternity services in 2000 found that...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...make people aware of past injustices.1Karen Halttunen, “Groundwork: American Studies in Place—Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 4, 2005,” American Quarterly, 58.1 (March 2006), 1-15. This is very...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
...several features in the painting: gourds, the building, the woman’s clothes and her mixed race lineage About Peter H. Wood is an emeritus professor of American history at Duke University....
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...9, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/how-many-american-men-are-gay.html. The attempt to statistically classify and pinpoint the number of "gay" men "in our midst" is nothing new. Unveiling and unmasking our identities so that we can...