"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...supervision. Comics and Murals Long perceived as reliable messengers in Bangladesh, local artists often translate crucial information into personable and understandable forms. Working with these artists, BRAC delivered COVID-19 information...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...“Nuevo South” as an important political economy and historical framework for understanding racial formations. As the field has continued to grow, however, new works are bringing a critical and longer...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
Review The present system of flood control in the Mississippi Valley is a compromise resulting from a long and complicated interplay among interest groups. The current solution to the problem...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...corpse was probably exhumed and examined. He then asks why—"if Agnes neither hated her husband for his religious views nor longed to remarry"—was she the object of such suspicion. His...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...for cheap melodrama, but the point gets across: Mason loves and respects his father, but he isn't about to pretend that the past didn't play out the way it did...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...history, the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical information about each of its twelve stops, and multimedia content including video and historical images. It requires no download and...
Sapelo Island Flyover
Video and Essay View the transcript of the video, along with a glossary of terms, here. A barrier island on the Georgia coast, Sapelo has an unusually long and varied...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...to institutions with long histories of community-building through arts activism and education. In this spirit, we hosted one of our first LiFT gatherings in the Hammonds House Museum. Founded in 1988, the Hammonds House...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...LiFT Art Salong Facebook page, November 22, 2015. Courtesy of Lift Art Salon. My scholarly interests and newfound archival passions come together in the monthly LiFT art salons that bring...