Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...continued to do so long after Britain's thirteen colonies became the first United States. Finally, and provocatively, Strang's work demands at least two epistemological shifts. First, we must expand our...
Insistent Traces
...poem "Old Elementary." View poem text here. About Claudia Emerson Claudia Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Late Wife. Her books include Figure Studies, Pinion, and Pharoah,...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...recollected bridges across Bayou St. John had disappeared. Street signs were nonexistent or homemade Traffic signals dangled uselessly or had been swept from tangled utility wires. The potholed streets were...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...how much the building cost. She calculated this number by remembering how when she would lean on the walls as a student at NOCCA, teachers told her, "Don't lean on...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Presentation Part 2: Gwin explores temporal and spatial dimensions of mourning, posing questions of how to mourn and celebrate Evers Part 3: Gwin situates aesthetic and ethical responses from Baldwin,...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...dispersed them, burned two police motorcycles, and looted more than forty stores along Main Street" (174–175). Whites sometimes used Mexican American claims of whiteness to stymie civil rights efforts by...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...Franklin to Morse (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 257–58. While mailings fanned out across various states, it was in South Carolina that they were met with the most dramatic...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...2.0. Frequent reassignments and year-round schooling (results of the diversity commitment) were the policies most at odds with the neighborhood school model and most disliked by Wake County's newest residents...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...with narrow, brown-and-white stripes. The cotton batting is moderately thick, and the quilt edges were bound with a strip of the bright orange fabric. Cousin Mag was available to help...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...ca. 1993. Photograph by David Schilling. We became fascinated with the funny moments just before or just after he delivered his monologues—such as when he'd yell at his dogs or...