Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...cities and towns. They are visible in Georgian-style post offices, and in huge train station murals splashed with the autumnal colors of rustic America bringing in the crop. The Great...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...subject’s glamour or moralizing over its ugliness, two common pitfalls for anyone writing about New Orleans. Maunsel White, Map 1814–1815 New Orleans, 1815. From Library of Congress Map Collections, 2007627049....
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...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...into the modern era by the cheap electricity and federal intervention of the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority. (There are two TVA songs in the Truckers catalogues.)2The two songs are...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Katrina and Intangible Culture Hurricane Katrina caused over 1.2 million people to flee greater New Orleans, where levees failed to protect both urban and outlying areas. I have elsewhere described...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...where the number of Mexicans tripled, the Northeast, where it almost tripled, the Mountain West, where it more than doubled, and the Midwest, where it nearly doubled. A greater percentage...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...deployment of "queer as an analytical tool" with "which to understand contested meanings of nation, race, belonging, and citizenship" in Greater Miami from the 1890s until 1940.1See Julio Capó Jr.,...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...looks at the larger-scale Gulf Coast landscape in the wake of Katrina. He photographs in black-and-white with a 4x5-inch view camera, which requires great patience but yields extremely sharp and...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...purpose, content-agnostic software packages like Zotero and Omeka. We’ve used Omeka once or twice on different things, and that’s a great piece of software. It’s very easy to use and...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...migratory patterns render it difficult for many African Americans to lay claim to just one regional identity, the South remains a place of great intrigue for a substantial number of...