The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...patterns today called "Rob Peter to Pay Paul." These patterns became popular during the late-nineteenth century and were published under many names during the twentieth. The common element is the...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...Snoddy Coan's) crazy quilts incorporates a piece of unfinished patchwork made by her mother, according to the label, "during the Civil War." The center of the quilt is a large...
Piedmont Blues
...1932, and he collaborated with a number of high profile blues artists, including Ma Rainey, Gus Cannon, and Papa Charlie Jackson. Blake disappeared after his last Paramount session in 1932....
Failed Memory Exercise
...a block of stores Like a test for names, beginning with the P.O., By which, in late autumn, the loaded wagons came, The colts wheeling behind the great sober mares,...
The Chesapeake Bay
...they considered the land to be "improved" when it had been cleared for cultivation. English visions of the landscape included the introduction of domestic livestock, the first beasts larger than...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...Press, 2007) he laid out a manifesto for bringing history to our senses. In How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...quantum later in the nineteenth century, to federal law and competing indigenous notions of what it means to be Cherokee today. While such different formations enabled Cherokees to maintain a...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...existing state parks or designate new park sites for "colored" only. It wasn't until the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund (LDF) began filing lawsuits in the late 1940s that southern states...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...Aracena-Montero Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala Antonio Davon Brown Darryl Roman Burt II Angel L. Candelario-Padro Juan Chevez-Martinez Luis Daniel Conde Cory James Connell Tevin Eugene Crosby Deonka Deidra Drayton Simon Adrian Carrillo...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...privileged in static narratives or histories. The Ghost Map series, for example, is a composite of vector-based GIS layers, archival materials, and oral histories that document changes in the physical...