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:...
Frank Willis
...called "civic," the things you had to know. Today in some way I somehow care that Frank Willis lives with his mother, without employ, was arrested for stealing a $12...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
Introduction Thomas Mullen is the author of four novels, including The Last Town On Earth (2006), which received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize and was recognized by USA Today as...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
"The Nation and the Negro," The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, February, 2013. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels III and Paige Knight. "The Nation and the Negro"...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
..."original values of the old African cultures still have profound meaning today."3John Biggers, typescript draft of travel diary, John Biggers Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library, Emory University. Cotton...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...form, the images imply that such problems may continue to be critical today. Southern Spaces will be posting images from the FSA/OWI Color Photographs collection, with captions, to our Featured...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...due to both budgetary constraints and lack of prosecutorial resources. Today, approximately twenty cold cases remain open and unresolved. While one re-opened case has resulted in a successful prosecution, the...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...as tied to the histories of broad geographical expanses such as the "South" and "America," and to specific times and places, from West Georgia in the 1970s, to Poland today....
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...extract themselves from the heavy hand of BIA officials. By wisely investing federal funds, they launched the "Choctaw Miracle." Today, the Mississippi Choctaws are among the most successful of Indian...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...with fairness and decency." To say the least, these sentiments glossed over the war's complicated history, especially the centrality of slavery but also the war's unremitting violence, ruthless guerrilla conflict,...