Shreveport, Louisiana images
Shreveport, Louisiana: Landscaping, El Dorado Casino Resort Today, the downtown and waterfront areas, bustle with tourist, most of whom gamble at one of several riverboat casinos. Artist's Rendering of RiverView...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...that is often referred to as a "tin." It is windowless, but has three doors. The front sports several faded, hand-painted signs. One describes the dress code by saying "not...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...A. West sketches out the evolution of these Calhoun-inspired vigilance committees in From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850–1915 (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008), 53–55. See also...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...Lieutenant General John Bell Hood, commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Photographic print. Hood's leadership at Chickamauga won him a promotion to lieutenant general on February 11, 1864, and...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...of the Atlanta painting, and promoters moved each canvas from city to city for exhibition. At every stop, riggers installed the panorama in a massive rotunda building, a specially designed...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
A General Note to Readers: I have intended this essay to be read and the films viewed together. Rather than narrate the films, I have presented an analysis of them...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...recounts how Association members promoted laws and zoning practices that shut down bars and blocked live music, leading to fewer venues for brass bands and other New Orleans musicians. The...
Deep Ellum Blues
...ownership of all its public land, making the State of Texas the nation's largest land promoter, aside from Uncle Sam himself. And in Texas, no city was so conceived and...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...an older white woman welcoming a white family back to the plantation and its values. Images of a young white woman appear amid an army of hooded Klansmen, who celebrate...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...Identified by their profiles and postures as a young woman, a mature woman, and an older woman, the three kneeling figures are iconic for their generational span and for their...