The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...a captured copy of the 1915 Plan de San Diego revealed Carranza adherents' intent to use a series of violent uprisings to regain territory in the old Spanish Southwest (Texas,...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...your true motivations and priorities." Americans face an uncomfortable truth, she noted. History demanded "self-revelation" about the stories we accept without questioning, about the narratives we use without thinking. She...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Chesnutt and Murfree as a black man and a white woman. (Chesnutt, a light skinned African American, was often assumed to be a white writer. Murfree published her early fiction...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...to complete because of environmental and public relations concerns and lawsuits filed by the mountain's owner and promoter, Hugh Morton. Screen capture of the GeoBrowse tool, Driving Through Time, 2012. The...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...the organization’s archive is available at MARBL.3This article makes use of some material originally published in the Robert W. Woodruff Library Blog.[http://web.library.emory.edu/blog/tag/tags/southern-christian-leadership-conference-records] Comprising 918 boxes of administrative documents, photographs, printed...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...with family tradition or geographical history. Devotees sing Sacred Harp because they enjoy the music, food, and fellowship; because they find spiritual or religious meaning in the music and the...
Brushes with War
...as unfamiliar. It was lost for nearly a century and has rarely left the Newark Museum since its acquisition in 1966. An enslaved black woman in a doorway warily observes...
Race
...look from an ivory spouse who is learning her husband's caesuras. She can see silent spaces but not what they signify, graphite markings in a forester's code. Many others have...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...that informed his fiction, the history that underlies Darktown, and the uses of history and fiction in understanding place and time. Interview About the Interviewer Joseph Crespino is Jimmy Carter Professor of...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...from the mid-nineteenth century by artists from America, Africa, and the Caribbean,"5"About Us," Hammonds House Museum. http://www.hammondshouse.org/about-us.html. Sipp draws inspiration from Gallery 72’s design and history. Though the gallery's glass walls...