A Conversation with Digital Historians
...our fellow citizens in the city. Our hope is that in some modest way the project will contribute to important conversations about class inequalities and race in the city. I...
Finding Media
...1923, like this image from Lewis Hine, is in the public domain. Fortunately for us, work produced by the US government is also in the public domain. This satellite image...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...in New Orleans. It was my first trip into the city after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and I had been touring a friend around landscapes and cityscapes that I...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
Introduction About the Author Laurel Horton is a folklorist and quilt researcher. A native of Kentucky, she earned a B.A. in English and an M.S. in Library Science from the...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...dance show, I think it was on channel 12, but one of the reasons I remember it is because I watched it. And I remember that there was a dance...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...key barrier to its implementation has been removed. Virginia's pending voter ID law now is also free of preclearance requirements and will likely be implemented as well. Mississippi's voter ID law—put...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...I think I just made up my mind that I did not want to leave here like that. I just felt like there was a gift or something inside of...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...is set and was filmed: language, imagery, music, and casting. It was shot on location in two Missouri Ozark counties, Taney and Christian. Taney County sits right on the Missouri-Arkansas...
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...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...Ala Wai canal, a lagoon off Waikiki that displaced wetlands used by island Natives for fishing and agriculture in Waikiki, see Sophie Cocke, "Ala Wai Canal: Hawaii's Biggest Mistake?," Honolulu...