"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...Artists Interview Twelve Contemporary American Artists (New York: A.R.T. Press, 1996), 94. Lawson: Absolutely. As I say in my artist statement: “Through sculpture and assemblage, my work explores the array...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...a time of heady optimism. Many believed anything was possible, even progress. The movement had its most visible roots in New York and San Francisco, but after it flared in...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848–1928 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). In particular, he examines Anglo attacks against Mexicans in the...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...the archive mission has been made possible through additional support from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, Music Rising, the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, and a...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...reveal the power held by Indians in cross-cultural communication. Once Cahokia collapsed—before European arrival—a new social geography emerged, still defined by chiefdoms, but where power was more diffuse and communication...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...throughout the state. Negro Quarters in Hermitage, Hermitage Plantation, Savannah, Georgia, ca. 1870. Photograph by Wilson & Havens. Courtesy of the New York Public Library Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division,...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...the wounded teenager, later identified as Timothy Weber, died in the local hospital. "That single shot," New York Times journalist Bob Herbert reported in 2007, "set in motion a tale...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...Sprinkle Creek with NCDOT geologist, Rick Lockamy, to conduct core rock sampling, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 2994. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT geologist, Rick Lochamy, studying maps in preparation for...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...to take, returning the rest to forage through the delta mud. The numbers in the coolers spoke: they were falling, 300 pounds, 225, 175. Every year they fell—he remembers 1,500...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...Valley Singers," Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter 2, no. 3 (December 31, 2013), http://originalsacredharp.com/2013/12/31/there-are-more-singings-now-than-ever-before-hugh-mcgraw-addresses-the-harpeth-valley-singers; Karlsberg, "Folklore's Filter," 105–12. In this post we complicate these narratives, drawing on a newly augmented...