Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...decade that would become known for its nostalgic idealizations of a plantation South, a mythology canonized in Margaret Mitchell's best-seller Gone with the Wind (1936), and given heft in over...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...sells this show short by suggesting that these works share some mythical “Southern” quality, a “distinct sense of place.” What these photographers share, with the exception of Adams whose images...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...Orleans provided warehouses to store the river’s goods, businessmen to buy and sell them, and captains to transport them. Powell gives vivid portraits of the different visions of empire that...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...be made in selling Southern Living, southern literature, country music, and conservative politics. We know it is a construct, a collage of popular symbols, stock characters, song types, and genre...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...and Working in the World's Largest Nuclear Complex (Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1986); Russell Olwell, At Work In The Atomic City: A Labor And Social History Of Oak Ridge, Tennessee...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...the War Department’s program to train black pilots Toni Frissell, Tuskegee airmen Woodrow W. Crockett and Edward C. Gleed (top left),...
Whiskey and Geography
...it was whiskey’s popularity among the English that gave the back-border farmers impetus to produce more than they could consume and haul it back East to sell. Whiskey became the...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...and her boyfriend/pimp Rosnay as they encounter the reality of selling their bodies in the effort to get out or escape, in this case, to the state of Nevada, where...