The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...also represent a family archive, or even a repository of personal capital, representing the commerce of women's mutual obligations and relationships. Mary's "Save All" quilt is the result of an...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...Nannie's Cross quilts [see Laurel Horton, Mary Black's Family Quilts]. The brown print that cradles this circle-in-a-square is a brown print that is similar, but not identical, to prints in...
Piedmont Blues
...accepting invitations to concerts and folk festivals. In 1991 she received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Baker's syncopated two-and three-finger guitar styles recalls Elizabeth...
Failed Memory Exercise
...I bump awake over the Atlantic Or wait in the plant-hung lobby of a hotel In Atlanta or Montreal and answer then, though I do not know the nature of...
The Chesapeake Bay
Introduction The Chesapeake Bay's environmental history is complex and well-documented. Over four-hundred years of textual records document the Bay's environmental history, and over ten-thousand years of archaeological, geological, and biological...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...this transformative event that gave rebirth to a nation. He tells a compelling story, based on diaries, letters, and other archival material. A number of questions remain unanswered, however. What...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
Review Whenever the concepts of diaspora and indigeneity come together, scholars tend to ascribe oppositional power to them. Diaspora implies transnational if not global movement, displacement, and attenuation while indigeneity...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...usual stereotypes. I've come to believe that the general reading public expects those stereotypes, so publishers expect them, too. But what I also understand are the political ramifications of stereotypes—they...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...a memorial "of some kind."10See Paul Brinkmann, "Pulse Owner Says No Re-Opening Planned Yet," August 1, 2016, http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/os-pulse-reopening-statement-20160801-story.html?ghj. A memorial "of some kind" would allow some young queer man or...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...information literacy, social media, art history, and the politics of information. In addition to geospatial literacy, Battista is interested in data literacy, digital humanities, critical library pedagogy, social media, and human attention....