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...
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...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
Review The Ohio River figures prominently in what are arguably the three most significant novels of American slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Toni Morrison's Beloved both feature...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...light. Project members drew on Pollock's research to pinpoint twelve significant areas—most now unrecognizable due to the city's growth—and created a GPS-guided tour enhanced with information and images gathered from...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...before they bought people out they made everyone sign a deed saying they would never live in this county again, not for the rest of their natural lives. John said...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
"Log Cabin design. Pieced by grandma Snoddy at home. Mother carried it when she went to housekeeping. Made before Mother married." History: The Log Cabin pattern first developed in...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church, "the leading cultural and religious institution in Haitian Miami and one of the most significant 'ethnic parishes' in American Catholic history" (35). This colorful mural...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...that Jewel doesn't fear the man (229). As Candace Waid points out in her study, The Signifying Eye: Seeing Faulkner's Art, this is the only direct reference to race in...