Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...ask them to talk about the storms, nor did we discourage it. As is perhaps most evident in "Trompe de l'OeIL," the student video that deals most directly with the...
Religion and the US South
...Civil War years. In the aftermath of the divisions came disputes over who controlled church property in some areas, unleashing fears, angers, and suspicions among religious people and creating disputes...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...legislative districts divided heavily Democratic areas into two or three new districts, allowing the GOP to elect two-thirds of the state legislature and nine of the state's thirteen congressmen and...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...was essential to the building and functioning of the institution. In contrast to many southern colleges, Emory College did not own slaves, but the administration did rent slaves from time...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...many others did, by "living abroad" on different farms. Even after emancipation Winn and Barbour continued to live at a distance, but freedom significantly lowered the barriers to living under...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...disease. As the campaign gained popularity, anemia ceased to be a disease in its own right; instead, it became a symptom of what doctors referred to as hookworm disease, or...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...curtains, a dildo chandelier, and rafters strung with Mardi Gras beads.52The View UpStairs, written and composed by Max Vernon, dir. Scott Ebersold, chor. Al Blackstone, performed by Jeremy Pope, Taylor...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...College Park; the Smithsonian Institution Archives; the District of Columbia Public Library Washingtoniana/People’s Archive Division and the Georgetown Library Peabody Room; the District of Columbia Archives; the National Archives and...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...a four-on-the-floor disco beat to mash together punk's emotional excess and industrial repetition and detachment. The band may have been "safety conscious," but the raw, pounding sound did not make...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...occupants did not survive. Street Scene: Lizardi and Dauphine Streets, Holy Cross Ian J. Cohn photgraphed three residences clustered around the intersection of Lizardi and Dauphine Streets in the Holy...