Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...(7). It would take many grandiloquent speeches and solemn reconciliatory gestures to dispel the miasma and make it stand for something meaningful, a turning point. Examining the Union siege of...
A City Divided
...and well-to-do people of the city"; Peachtree Street, McElreath explained, housed "the nouveau riche and social strugglers." Surrounding the grander homes of Houston, Boulevard, and Jackson, "less prominent people and...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...long career, she never "took her hand off the plow" of social justice, and once her course was set, she did not look back. Interviews with a number of activists...
Stones and Shadows
...and impossible, words as grand as shadows cast by stones. He stabs at a steak with his fork and says, "This one is your mother's — she doesn't want any...
Brass Knuckles
Something so pleasing in their heft it's easy to forget how my grandfather used them in those days when everybody knew he kept a hundred rolled and rubberbanded in the...
A Mess of Poke
...are rather stately. My Poke Sallet Granny My maternal grandmother, at least, kept eating poke sallet long after she no longer had to because she loved the stuff. Mee-Ma lived...
Work
...the machine room. My only factory stint. Never set foot in a towel mill. But that doesn't matter. I dreamed my mother's and grandmother's dreams. Dreams of clatter and snap,...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...photograph of a soldier, likely drawn from the cache of images Bailey inherited from his grandmother.2 As Thompson notes in her catalogue essay “During his last year of art school,...
The Dirt Eaters
...lay on Great- grandma's grave when I was small. "Most cultures have passed through a phase of earth- eating most pre valent today among rural Southern Black women." Geo Phagy:...
Julius Hartman
Clipping from an article about Julius Hartman, "A Born Genius," published in the Atlanta Constitution on August 31, 1890: "A Born Genius" "And now [Hartman] is entering the grandest work...