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....
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
..."unritual"—with a new sense of the sacred that allows for remembrance and re-humanization. Rituals—be they initiations, funerary rites, or collective acts of remembrance—confer "humanity" on those who practice them and...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...Makers of the Sacred Harp stands out from other works on American folk hymnody in its attention to the hymn texts and their authors, the focus of Richard Hulan’s contributions....
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...Tyger River area. Rosa was the oldest of the eleven children of Silas and Nancy. The quilt that Silas and Nancy Benson gave their daughter was a whole-cloth quilt of...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...common, fluid border in the geographic regions of South Texas and Northern Mexico. Rio Grande and Pecos Railway Company, Detail of a map of the Rio Grande and Pecos Railway...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...Acres and a Goat, a memoir; Providence, a history of one square mile of land in Holmes County, Mississippi; The Glad River and Cecilia's Sin, two spiritually nuanced novels; The...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...Author Elliott J. Gorn is the Joseph Gagliano Professor of American Urban History at Loyola University Chicago. His books and articles embrace multiple aspects of urban and American culture, particularly...
The Liminal Site
...like C. florida that thrives in the partly shady wood with nice rich organic soils all moist and acidic. Once the plant leaves the nursery for that long trunk ride...
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...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...