A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...after the defeat of the Confederate States of America, however, Richmond stubbornly clung to its "lost cause." Led by its veterans and ladies associations, the city put up a massive...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...a sixteen-room French Quarter townhouse, donning the mask of urban sophisticate. It was as if he were striving to recreate the lifestyle of planter patriarchs who used to divide their...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...the white southern middle-class, Braden grew up to critique the language of white supremacy and use her sharp intelligence and pragmatic skills as a journalist at the Anniston Star, the...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...artists in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Featuring the photography of Eric Waters and the paintings and mixed-media exhibitions of Radcliffe Bailey and Epaul Julien, this chapter considers the (mis)use...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...increased use of formerly segregated sites led whites to abandon public spaces in favor of private facilities. States and cities steadily withdrew support for public parks and recreation.2Kevin M. Kruse,...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...comfortable "back east" and in such august company. To Hardwig's mind, this image elegantly captures the "enormous gulf between the communities depicted in Murfree's dialect stories about the Tennessee mountains...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...more work at the hiring offices of shipping lines that used to be located at the foot of Canal Street, where Harrah's Casino now stands. At first blush, this suggests...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...inner-city enclaves in which it began to a more diffused presence in and around DC, including Baltimore and the eastern suburb of Prince George's County in Maryland. Hopkinson uses autobiographical...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...In addition to musical recording and touring, Leavell manages his pine forested Charlane Plantation located in Twiggs County, Georgia. To help shape policy and to promote sound forestry management practices...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...area for at least 250 years. Nancy Marshall and John McWilliams, Homecoming parade preparation, McClellanville, South Carolina, 2010. A few years ago, Gussie Humes, the only African American member of...