Gold Records in Deep Space
...archival traces remain relevant and enlivening. To commemorate a century of one of the world's most influential musics, filmmaker Martin Scorsese produced The Blues (2003), a seven-part PBS documentary series...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...were born before or during World War II and lived in Atlanta or the US South during most of their adulthood or at least prior to the late 1960s. The...
Brushes with War
...Oil on Canvas by Winslow Homer. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number 22.207. Edging past Homer's iconic sniper, visitors to the DC venue had plenty to see—a display of sixty...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...preeminence ran aground against a novel corona virus. Remarkably, four months before the World Health Organization declared the worldwide spread of COVID-19 a public health emergency, preparedness experts convened by the...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...Matt Lassiter has been talking about the end of the South with suburbanization after World War II, and scholars in other periods are deeply interested in the boundaries of the...
Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...devoted to ensuring that the names and relations of the makers would be remembered. The number of quilts and the care with which they were labeled suggests that she thought...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...I-26 through some of North Carolina's most spectacular vistas and some of the world's oldest mountains. During the surveying, mapping, core rock sampling, removal, and construction phases, I made over...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...“a belt of randomly fissured or cracked rock that may be filled with mineral deposits.” Its meaning shifted dramatically after World War II when it began to be used in...