The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...remembered from living there as a child—landscapes and cityscapes that were completely and permanently changed. Somehow I had gotten into the Gentilly neighborhood and was searching for an exit. Vaguely...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...a neighboring farmer. Their children were James Robert (b. 1854), Nancy Jane (b. 1856), a stillborn infant (1858), and Mary Louisa (b. 1860). During the Civil War, Rosa maintained the...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...for Human Rights, 1944-1955 (Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). As Mississippian Ellie Dahmer stated about the 1966 assassination of her husband and local National Association for the...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...Civil War Centennial Center, Downtown Richmond, 1962. Courtesy of the Valentine Richmond History Center. No other place embodied that particular spirit of 1961 quite as well as Richmond, the former...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...we changed names slightly. But we knew that there were so many people of Latin American descent in the area, and the fact that we didn't give any addresses where...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...once you get the audience. If you don't get the audience, you got nothing."1 David N. Rubin, Go-Go Swing (WETA-TV, 1990), videocassette, 60:00. In the late 1980s, go-go rose to...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...University, 1996 [1965]); Aldo Leopold A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (London: Oxford University Press, 1949). To tar it with racism, and corporate greed, especially in a...
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Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...Mississippi of the Homosexual and the Politics of Dialectics," in Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948–1968 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997). Sears's rhetorical move...
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...