Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta (University of Georgia Press, 2018). Courtesy of Willena Scott-White. Bottom, Soybean field, Crittenden County, Arkansas, August 3, 2013. Photograph by Thomas R. Machnitzki....
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...a writer of uncommon creativity. Fortunately, Wise is more than equal to the task. At numerous points I found myself marveling at the subtlety and dexterity of analysis. I learned...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...unreliable takeaway lessons and often obscure deeper etiologic factors. Revisions may be forthcoming, but inaugural versions can exert an outsized influence on what endures as the conventional understanding of what happened...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
.... . that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events . . . The Almighty...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...and San Francisco, where their visibility and numbers result in political clout and political influence. Greenwich Village in New York and the Castro in San Francisco were two models; pioneer...
Grapefruit Workers in Florida, January 1937
This series of photographs by Arthur Rothstein depicts men and women in canning and packing plants in Winter Haven and Fort Pierce, Florida. While photographs of agricultural work appear throughout the Library...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...by filming the exterior of Foster, not only broken doors and windows, but the structure's physical beauty. In an effort to tell the story of a powerful place, a site...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...that state park agencies should do much more to acknowledge and reckon with the history and legacy of Jim Crow. As evidenced by the paltry numbers of black visitors to...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...Increasing numbers of cars, trolleys, buses, and taxis enabled movement between downtown and suburbs; rural and urban areas; "colored" and "white" areas; and cultural and domestic spheres. The city's growth...