Race
...look from an ivory spouse who is learning her husband's caesuras. She can see silent spaces but not what they signify, graphite markings in a forester's code. Many others have...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...easy for readers to bypass, particularly because modern reproduction obscures some of the details of this image, originally produced as a copperplate engraving in the mid-1770s. Yet it is worth...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...that informed his fiction, the history that underlies Darktown, and the uses of history and fiction in understanding place and time. Interview About the Interviewer Joseph Crespino is Jimmy Carter Professor of...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...from the mid-nineteenth century by artists from America, Africa, and the Caribbean,"5"About Us," Hammonds House Museum. http://www.hammondshouse.org/about-us.html. Sipp draws inspiration from Gallery 72’s design and history. Though the gallery's glass walls...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...wall, but the owners booked beach music bands because people still wanted to dance the shag. John says the leather shop he ran sold rolling paper under the counter, but...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...the mountain and now at the top edge, was the familiar jutting rock of Fallam Point. "Is Montefalco totally gone?" Earl Dotter, Oldhouse Branch Refuse Valley Fill Impoundment, Enterprise Mining...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...York: Domino Sugar Factory. From Robert Southey, to Voltaire, to Victor Schoelcher, to Aimé Césaire, abolitionists, philosophers, and poets alike have used the trope of blood to denounce the dehumanizing...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...or more precisely the sense of feeling “more at home” with specific terms was useful in coming to an understanding of the way in which our use of language is...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...American use of the bottomland hardwood forest presumably did not endanger the natural variety of the land or its capacity for self-renewal. Much of the Native American use of timber...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...Met, Eggleston uses a small, quick camera and color to build a vision that evokes as well as challenges Evans's aesthetic. Shot straight-on from eye-level in black and white, Eggleston's...