Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...on each site to read a short history. Map by Michael Page. Oral Histories, People, and Places The oral histories featured in Memory Flash come from women and men who...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...as the planners of New Deal housing legislation determined that racial segregation best facilitated stable housing markets, the planners of Oak Ridge agreed that accommodating existing social norms, including white...
And the Prize Goes to...
...asked many of the scholars on the syllabus to share their top five "tips" for best reading practices. The students also gathered hints from others who need to read quickly...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...of the taint of whiteness and insult in the term, pointedly did not. Alice Dunbar-Nelson (best known for her New Orleans stories in The Goodness of St. Rocque [1899]) enunciated...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...to end segregation—before the fiftieth anniversary of the bus burning occurs in 2011. A racially violent past is best addressed not by erasing its traces on the landscape, but by...
Editors
...Divide, a New York Times Bestseller, Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner. She is also the author of Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...places in the wider world; and challenge conventional ways of understanding the people, places, and cultures found in and across the South. This 2015–2016 series will examine the relationship between...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...