They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...the opera house, so that an otherwise all too typical lynching became national, and even international, news. The story, for instance, appeared in a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, along...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...from 2000 to 2005. He is the author of Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (2010) and Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements...
The Shenandoah Valley
...Illustration. Courtesy of the New York Public Library Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-286d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. Sheridan's raid went into local history as "the burning." Far...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...authority and behavior) in that context. Navra, in Marathi, refers to a bridegroom or husband. The dictionary suggests it derives from the root nav, new, suggesting a “new man,” reborn...
Remnants of Flannery
...Chronicles, largely set in-and-around New Orleans; Seth Grahame-Smith's 2010 novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and the 2012 film of the same name, which reimagines slaves as food for vampires and...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...Emory News. The section is expected to expand as the new website takes off. The website publishes original scholarship on a monthly basis; the first article is Boyd Lewis' "Living at...
Writing Appalachia
...example, to examine the concept of the American frontier in the writings of New Yorker James Fenimore Cooper as well as in the southern account of Anne Newport Royall, or...
Quilting Conversation
...working in New York in the 1970s, thanks in part to a 1971 exhibition at the Whitney Museum, Abstract Design in American Quilts, that put historical quilts in conversation with...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...careless that his name is in one pile and not the other."13Matthew Dickman, "Grief," The New Yorker, May 5, 2008, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/05/05/grief-6 My purple gorilla was a pink flamingo—standing with its...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
"I'm tired of these categories." —Patricia Yaeger1Patricia Yaeger, Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930–1990 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), ix. In a recent New York Times opinion...