Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...stations. Spitzer was founding director of the Louisiana Folklife Program and senior folklife specialist at the Smithsonian Institution. He has produced ethnographic films, radio documentaries and CDs on traditional culture,...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...collective subject in readings of American naturalist William Bartram (1739–1833). Bartram's drawings of flora, fauna, and Cherokee Americans are based on observations and notes taken during his journey to Georgia,...
The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War
...PhD from Yale University and is a specialist on the social and political history of the nineteenth-century United States, on the history of the US South, and on the comparative...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...industry executives." How can this square with what Harrison describes as "the most culturally fundamentalist sacred music in evangelicalism" (140)? These issues and questions make up the emotional and analytical...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Terms & Solutions for a Post-Petrochemical Culture." The utterly disparate list—tagged with letters that refer to the sections of the Ecological Atlas but are otherwise merely alphabetized—includes everything from consumer...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...was a finalist for the 1995 American Library Association Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award, as well as a finalist for the Firecracker Award in non-fiction. Pratt has also received...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
Introduction Thomas Mullen is the author of four novels, including The Last Town On Earth (2006), which received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize and was recognized by USA Today as...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
Review Children at Play, Mobile, Alabama, 1956. Photograph 37.002 by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation. A grandfather holds his small grandson while his three...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...a number of improvements have taken place in the city. "Along the sweep of the nine-mile circle several attractive homes have been erected, and those who have not been in...