Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...a woman. The local neighborhood association puts up signs that read, "A Past with a Future." As I see it, the neighborhood's past is rich with gay history, and the...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
...several features in the painting: gourds, the building, the woman’s clothes and her mixed race lineage About Peter H. Wood is an emeritus professor of American history at Duke University....
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...of subordination in a way that was interpreted as 'getting fresh' with a white woman."2Reed, 12. "If bristling at Jim Crow's injustices were especially prominent in my consciousness," Reed writes,...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...for charity, and exhibits including the "Women in Photography 20th Anniversary Tea Time Exhibit," "photo l.a. 2002" and "Photo Impact" in Los Angeles, and a two-woman exhibit at the Loft...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...City: Crucible of the Latina South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023), 10. A lady watches a woman rolling a cigar in a factory, Tampa, Florida, 1963. Photograph...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
...not I'll be arriving too late, what's to be done best done with rifle or shotgun, so make driving the good part, turn off my radio, let the dark close...
#209, Long Meter
...our best spices flow abroad To entertain our Saviour God; And faith and love and joy appear, And every grace be active here. From Lloyd, Benjamin,...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...
Fort Scott newspapers
...the outgrowth of the purest and best qualities of human nature. This collection might well be compared to the Garden of Eden in its combination of excellences and like the...
Piedmont Blues
...talented blues guitarist of his era and is considered by some to be one of the best acoustic blues guitarists of all time. He was an itinerant songster, and his...