Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...combine the written word he privileges in his posters with the provocative space of a church building decorated with long strips of bible pages that leap almost flame-like across the...
Like Father
...band binds the morning paper. My father's embrace tightens. Grits Stiffen. I hug back Like a little boy, gripping To prove his handshake. Daddy squeezes me close, But I cannot...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...the American Philosophical Society 157, no. 2 (2013): 190. And the American Indian kneeling before Minerva most likely represents one of the particular Indian tribes inhabiting the Gulf South, for...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
...engaged primarily with the categories we now know as sexuality, gender, class, race, and region. He is the author of Men Like That: A Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of...
Palomares Bajo
...scattered highly-hazardous amounts of radioactive plutonium powder, a carcinogen, across their homes and crops. Three kilograms or more were dispersed, and "inhaling a milligram"—as seems likely for someone as close...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...reenactors were white, a number of African American reconstructed regiments, such as the Massachusetts 54th USCT, regularly participate in these events. The reenactment phenomenon has proliferated globally to include battles...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...storylines and the occasional pauses for reflection and reconsideration. Its erudition is matched by a quality Percy valued: sincerity. It is, by turns, moving and entertaining. It ends like a...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...individually and silently, the family was likely to listen to someone reading aloud. Typically, the man of the house would read aloud, while women engaged in some form of sewing...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...level. This allowed organizations like ESA to continue our mutual aid work. But when the US announced the end of the Federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) Declaration on May...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...seeing the Mississippi Gulf Coast a year after Katrina was surprise at how little rebuilding was under way. Many places, residential and commercial areas alike, still looked like a bomb...