"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...have pointed out how slave society was divided along lines of gender, between town and country, and African ethnicity. The human geography of rural neighborhoods demarcated another faultline. Slave society...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...like the music, was the air that his ears breathed. This being said, it would be wrong not to acknowledge that this southern literary emergence in 1929—so surprising to the...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...lines with the trees, sometimes downed trees dissect the frame horizontally. Other images don't have strong leading lines. The ones with algae or grasses are more abstract, ethereal. Sometimes there's...
World's Fair Amphitheater, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2010
Spencer's Inc., Mount Airy, North Carolina, 2010
Frank Willis
...friend Jennifer said so, never went to the Jefferson Memorial, climbed the stone rhino at the Smithsonian, cursed tourists, took exquisite phone messages for my father, a race man, who...
Seneca Quarry
...Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. The most remarkable part of the 1823 payroll is the annotation by Frank and Martin (see image, lines 31 and 32). Whoever signed for...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...2011–2012 and 2012–2013. Even as GOP lawmakers found the funds to create a voucher system for private schools, they reduced the number of openings in the state's highly successful pre-K...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
Review Sensory history is an exciting new approach to writing history. It offers a fresh take on past perceptions. Sensing between the lines of written sources, the sensory historian recasts...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...sight-reading that spread westward from Boston through the northeastern United States. A pair of New York-based songbook compilers introduced the use of shape-notes in 1801.1The title itself of William Little...