MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...oriented his 1154 world map in a direction that reverses present-day common placement of north at the top of maps and south at the bottom.2See B.L. Gordon, "Sacred Directions, Orientation,...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...that our worlds never fall apart, in taking the day-to-day for granted. We like to think we know better (“Here today, gone tomorrow,” and all that). Whatever we know doesn’t...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Texas Cherokees numbered several hundred while around five thousand western Cherokees settled in present-day western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. Many of the 16,500 who still inhabited their ancestral homeland in...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...tradition in the white South, but it remains a profound, haunting irony, especially during the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Many white southerners today are citizens, even though their ancestors took...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...be made in selling Southern Living, southern literature, country music, and conservative politics. We know it is a construct, a collage of popular symbols, stock characters, song types, and genre...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Harp singing features day- or weekend-long gatherings, where participants sing without an audience from a songbook called The Sacred Harp. The convention in Cork drew a crowd unprecedented among European...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...States is here generally broken into a number of subgenres of rap and bounce, though the definitions and boundaries of these categories are fluid and often change according to whom...
Chattanooga, Tennessee images
Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...House Museum.1Miriam Denard, phone interview with author, January 15th, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author Donnie sings in the courtyard, Atlanta, Georgia, July 12, 2015. Photograph by Clint Fluker. Courtesy of...