Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.
...his archival holdings in the African American collections at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Best known for artist books that narrate African American history in striking...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...whole city to the nation and the world" (222). The book is divided into three parts: "Origins," "Fame and Infamy," and "Bourbon Street as a Social Artifact." "Origins" reprises Campanella's...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...photographs. No image became more iconic, no place more marked by photographs than Birmingham in the days of Bull Connor's hoses and dogs. Martin A. Berger's fine book, Freedom Now! Forgotten...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
...Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. In 2003, her second collection Bellocq's Ophelia won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and was named a Notable Book by the...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...New York City and raised in Washington, D.C. She has published several books of poems, including: The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001), and American...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (New York: Basic Books, 2014). For the "second slavery" see Dale W. Tomich, Through the Prism...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...book, William O'Brien tells the story of segregated state parks and recovers a history that states have worked assiduously to erase. O'Brien's is the third book in the Library of...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...Some Faulkner stories were initially published in a magazine and then later reworked into a book. "The Unvanquished" was originally a short story and was then republished as a novel...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...well-researched study of localized expressive art but also provides us with the first true book-length, academically-oriented work on New Orleans rap and bounce to date. In New Orleans, what is...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...furniture in the sitting room included, among other items, a walnut writing table, two bookcases with glass doors, one lot of about a hundred books "including cyclopedias and books of...