Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...imagine the brief peace of their shared domestic partnership in that home.2For more on Merlo and Williams, see John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (New York: W.W....
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...in Douglas'" (206). Sometimes the notes expound methodological quandaries, as with the astute observations and critiques of interviews conducted by John Barry and William Armstrong Percy (335, note 45), about...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...journal The Camp Merton Chronicles in November 1995. Peel's project centered on the renovation of Atlanta's John Howell Park and a new statue to be installed in it. Titled Hope...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...known map of the Mississippi River, by Father Jacques Marquette, but credited to Melchisédec Thévenot. The engraver was likely Jean Baptiste Liébaux. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at...
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...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...John tells him that the great sin occurred when "th [sic] white folks made the Bible lie" (116). Likewise, one of the creepiest scenes in 12 Years a Slave is...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...and video and audio recordings of the convention by John Hough and John Prendergast in this piece. Jakub Lipski graciously allowed me to include a photograph of his in this essay as well. My...
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...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...razed and an untold number of residents displaced in the name of progress. Nor is its future unclouded. Evening on Bayou St. John, New Orleans, between 1900 and 1906. Library...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...year and a half and appears on his Capricorn album, Dinnertime. Next, Leavell spent six months on the road with Dr. John (Mac Rebennack). He refers to his time with...