Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
Introduction The True Image explores the history and output of Scotch-Irish stonecutters in the early backcountry of Pennsylvania and the Carolinas. For none of them do we have any personal...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
Review Warning the governor of Kentucky that the white South stood on the brink of destruction in 1860, secession commissioner Stephen F. Hale wrote that Lincoln's election "inaugurates all the...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...in any number of new temporal and spatial configurations" (54–55). While this observation is true of any map—as is the relationship between cartographic representation and a given culture's deepest ambitions...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...no place. "Mississippi has two cities," said Faulkner, "Memphis and New Orleans." Upriver, the Vienna of the Delta is Clarksdale. We looked for easy sevenths and found a covered wagon...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...Longleaf will also convince its audience of the imperatives of protection and restoration. About the Author James E. Fickle is professor of history at the University of Memphis and Visiting...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...in Mississippi; and Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, and Nashville in Tennessee. My initial plan was to photograph in two parts of each city: the older downtown areas and places that attracted...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...Leadership Conference in Atlanta. He was also at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on the evening in April 1968 after Rev. King was assassinated there. Beginning in 1963 and continuing...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...paraphernalia from the civil rights movement, sold at the National Civil Rights Museum, Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee, March 31, 2013. Photograph of postcard courtesy of Erick Alvarado. © Erick Alvarado,...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...contemporary politics and policy before engaging people who had led social changes and experienced its results. Then it was off to Memphis and the National Civil Rights Museum, where we...
Work
...and louder to rapture. About the Author Darnell Arnoult was born in Martinsville, Virginia in 1955 to a Baptist beautician from Draper, North Carolina and a Catholic architect from Memphis,...