Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...handwritten ledgers listing the 70,000 negatives with identifying numbers and simple descriptions. To date, over 15,000 of these negatives have been developed, digitized, and electronically indexed for the library's website....
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...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...partner David Jackson, John Hersey, Carson McCullers, Françoise Sagan: this is just a brief list of artists (in addition to its most famous residents Hemingway and Williams) who lived in...
A City Divided
...in Grace Methodist Church to introduce the boundary proposal, and the list of attendees was remarkably similar to the committee named to study the Morris Brown move. B. Lee Smith,...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...want to be in that number."14Edwin Bocage, as quoted in Various Artists, Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album (Nonesuch Records, 2005). Nick Spitzer, Eddie Bo, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005. A...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...a nation into existence (14). Apples and Ashes is filled with often brilliant and always engaging close readings of antebellum southern nationalist literary criticism and Confederate novels, poems, songs, and...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...with much recent scholarship, Karp presents these men, their worldview, and their institutions not as an aberration in the development of the United States or departure from the emerging capitalist...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...describe personal relationships. Readings vary from specialist to specialist, and each reading may be valid. Historical geographic information systems (HGIS) and digital maps may also present opportunities to analyze complex...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...its visual spectacle, the installation greets our hearing and smell. Standing by the entrance closing our umbrellas and drying the bottoms of our dripping pants, we listen to the entering...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...Glass negative by unknown creator. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/item/2016852472. Stoll directs special attention—and some of his most blistering critique—to the ideologues of capitalist...