Deep Ellum Blues
Introduction The railroads made Dallas, Texas into a city, highways made it a Sunbelt city, and DFW Airport made it an international city. Never much known for making things, it...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...pressing national and international issues, rather than presenting a nostalgic alternative to them" (6). This is a bold, even swaggering claim. Yet, Hardwig's forceful interpretations and deft marshaling of textual...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...the project director and editor-in-chief of Sounding Spirit, a research lab and publishing initiative promoting collaborative engagement with historical American songbooks. Karlsberg is an internationally recognized singer, teacher, composer, and songbook...
Brushes with War
...International Society of War Artists. In "The Joe Bonham Project" (named for the soldier in Dalton Trumbo's 1938 novel Johnny Got His Gun), more than a dozen artists focused their...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...Earth Summit in Stockholm brought together world leaders under the aegis of the United Nations to lay the foundation for global environmental governance. Various international gatherings stimulated research on the...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...handling unions competed for work along the busy river. In 1935, during the labor-friendly Roosevelt administration, the International Longshoremen Association built on this segregated, sometimes contentious, but often cooperative past,...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895, the triumph of Jim Crow in law and custom was virtually complete. Washington addressed the fears of many whites and the hopes...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...color, particularly in international markets. In the end of both the film and his memoir, Northup is reunited with his family, but those who caused his ordeal are never brought...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...driven around where the marchers had gathered, in silent support. "Five or 10 years ago nobody would have suspected this," Bill said.2United Press International, "50 in Atlanta Mark Gay Liberation...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...their immediate grief.10D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality (London: Tavistock Publications, 1971); Melanie Klein, "Mourning and Its Relation to Manic-Depressive States," The International Journal of Psychoanalysis 21 (1940): 125–153; Ellen Schattschneider, "Buy...