The Liminal Site
...with a Chinese or Japanese provenance—daphnes, gardenias, camellias, lacecap hydrangeas. (While there were several evergreen azaleas already on the property, however, I was not tempted to add to their number.)...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...our search for the place we call home, in search of our true selves. . .This isn't my story of Atlanta. It's mine too. It belongs to us" (xiv, emphasis...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...sessions became the 2015 book and photo exhibition, "The View of Collier Heights," staged in the Auburn Avenue Research Library Auxillary Gallery at Atlanta’s Hammonds House Museum. For this Southern...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...“negro.” This official action during the Jim Crow era resulted in the flight of many of the state’s Native Americans. Debra H. Rodman, Exhibition guest book, Library of Virginia,...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...ship's deck, did not enter service until 1998. Although the net value of shipping continued to increase during this period due to trade in grain and petroleum, the number of...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...learning about my subject and doing research. But the research didn't start until I got a book deal. Learning about The Villages and learning about the state's water management, or...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...2014, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/autopsy-of-the-noise-ordinance/Content?oid=2433600; Alex Woodward, "Mimi's in the Marigny Cancels Live Music; Buffa's Faces 'noise' Lawsuit," Gambit, July 3, 2014, accessed December 19, 2014, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2014/07/03/mimis-in-the-marigny-cancels-live-music-buffas-faces-noise-lawsuit. However, musicians have not ignored this...
Unquiet Emmett Till
Review Emmett Till continues to torment our imaginations. How could two (and almost certainly more) grown men, veterans, over six feet tall, see a fourteen year old kid as such...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...sky, "Well, once there was just dark. You ask me, the light's winning."19Cary Joji Fukunaga, "Form and Void," True Detective (HBO, March 9, 2014), Episode 8. ) as a cheap,...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...Elmendorf, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, and Christopher S. Warshaw In Support of Appellees/Respondents, Merrill v. Milligan, July 18, 2022, 7–8, https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-1086/230239/20220718132621523_91539%20HARVARD%20BRIEF%20PROOF3.pdf. The brief notes that these numbers do not include settlements....