Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...women quilted this top with close rows of stitches irregularly in "elbows," an angular variation of the more rounded "fan" quilting design. Fan quilting is one of the all-over designs...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...printed chintz — that is, the quilt was made from lengths of fabric featuring a factory-printed design of large floral wreaths. As a wedding gift, this quilt was symbolic rather...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...branches. Water level signs hang from the trees: 1919 1857 1913 1989 and on. A memory of what is no longer painful. From year to year the levels of the...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...the furnaces to the dead West End. They nest in boxcars and dance-hall doors boarded up to keep the silence in. They rattle White and Colored signs from scrapheaps and...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...the South at between 10 and 12 percent in 1860, although the product of mixed-race unions constituted more significant proportions of city dwellers: 39 percent of free blacks and 20...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...1850s, slaveholders in Washington used foreign policy to support this worldview. Free trade with Great Britain, penetration of slave-grown commodities in markets across the globe, and significant changes in the...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...the Discourse of Drug Control," Cultural Critique, no. 71 (2009), 13. A sign at the humble ferry station for the hand-pulled Los Ebanos Ferry or El Chalan [...] that travels...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...spoke of dedicating the reenactment to the memory of the "Charleston 9." When black and white reenactors entered the church sanctuary before embarking on the motorcade, they wore signs proclaiming...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...at any major US university to recruit significant numbers of African Americans in a given signing class. Bell enjoyed an illustrious career at Minnesota, winning a national championship in 1960...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...welcomed the ruling this week, suggesting that it helps set a significant precedent regarding the relationship between library intiatives and copyright laws. "This ruling is significant for all libraries and universities because...