Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...the flares and safety lights of apocalyptic refineries. It meant joining my father and uncles at sea, working on platforms. The closets in my parents' house tell the history of...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Black and Poor Americans records, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University. SCLC argued that traditional principles and tactics of nonviolent direct action could be successfully brought to bear under any number...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...of many insights into, for example, military tactics, survival strategies, and commemorative practices. In "The Sounds of Secession," Smith invites readers to listen in to transformations in the Charleston soundscape...
A City Divided
...they called "Negro encroachment" and "invasion." When black families continued renting and purchasing homes within Jackson Hill, whites adopted tactics common throughout the urban South and increasingly utilized in the...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...razed and an untold number of residents displaced in the name of progress. Nor is its future unclouded. Evening on Bayou St. John, New Orleans, between 1900 and 1906. Library...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...Americas to house the government seat of a European empire. In 1808, King João VI and his family spent one month in Salvador before moving on to Rio de Janeiro;...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...Maron, The group at Ground Zero Blues Club, Clarksdale, Mississippi, 2008. One Delta moment suggested the widened horizons made possible by bringing international students together with local people. A few...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...in graduate school at the University of Illinois, attended a number of singings in his home state in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Encountering Wesleyan’s strong ethnomusicology program, Bruce...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...Myths (1994), which contains selected essays from the annual volumes. Through this international network, she has served as a mentor for many individual researchers, both academic and self-trained. Mary Black's...
Deep Ellum Blues
Introduction The railroads made Dallas, Texas into a city, highways made it a Sunbelt city, and DFW Airport made it an international city. Never much known for making things, it...