Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...these limitations, Louisiana offers valuable insights for students and scholars interested in its primary subject: the creation of racial hierarchies that enabled slavery to increasingly flourish here "before cotton" (204)....
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...great novel, with a sense of awe, wonder, and pathos—then closes with a witty and wise epilogue, "On Sex, History, and Trespassing." William Alexander Percy offers moments to reflect on...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...New Orleans Suite offers thoughtful discussions on issues of concern and contradiction, the second half offers an optimistic narrative on the abilities of music-centered cultural production to dismantle reductive, overly...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...and of life-size sculptures made out of molasses-covered resin. The exhibit offers no flyers, captions, or explanations, only a release form informing us that we enter the building at our...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...1980. Photograph by Miami Herald staff. As a historian, I've always believed the past offers us the possibility of instruction and inspiration. It is generative in that we understand the...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
A New Era for "School Choice" and Vouchers The United States has never been closer to adopting a nationwide program in which the state and federal governments spend billions of...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...previous LGBTQ+ activism or dismissing it as more assimilative than radical, Weathers's account in "Cheers" offers documentary testimony through the thin guise of fiction for how some queer people who...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...a Legacy) by the folklorist Fred Fussell, and recent documentary work by the blues guitarist Jontavious Willis, the blues of the Lower Chattahoochee Valley remains largely unappreciated. This Southern Spaces presentation offers...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...more static publishing paradigms to the constant development and interaction of digital platforms requires adjustment, but also offers us a great opportunity. Narratives into Data How do you translate the...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
..."Coney thus offers a case study of the growing cultural revolt against genteel standards of taste and conduct that would swell to a climax in the 1920s."2John Kasson, Amusing the Million:...