"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...2010. I have interviewed many participants in the 2005 and 2006 reenactments. I count among my dearest friends persons on all sides of controversies over the reenactment.2For an account of...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...in public domain. The questions motivating Pargas are commendable, and in asking them, the author finds himself in good company. Despite Pargas's claims to new lines of inquiry, historians have...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...in fatal crashes. Poignant and popular examples include "Wreck on the Highway" recorded by Roy Acuff (and subsequently many others), "The Runt" recorded by Hank Snow, and movie theme song...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...to take permission from a government authority before acquiring, disseminating, or publishing or distributing any geospatial information of India." The Times report explains that passage of the bill would mean...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...drug dealers, and preachers who use "gospel go-go" to draw young people into their churches—to show this scene at its most grassroots. Building upon recent scholarship by Mark Anthony Neal...
Timber, Equity, and Ethics
Video About the Author Susan Hamill is a Professor of Law at University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa and an analyst of tax law. She is the author...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...Artisan Project of Port-de-Paix, Haiti, sister diocese to the Archdiocese of Miami. Notre Dame d'Haiti Cathedral, Miami, Florida, February 1, 2014. Photo by Monica Lauzurique. Courtesy of the Archdiocese of...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...University of California Santa Cruz, and Eric Porter, a University of California Santa Cruz American Studies and history professor, take the title of their book from a five-movement Duke Ellington-composed...
Single Centers of Creation?
...Pale Salamander Desmognathus wrighti Pigmy Salamander Pseudotriton ruber* Red Salamander Plethodon jordani Red-cheeked Salamander Plethodon shermani Red-legged Salamander Eurycea "Sandhills Eurycea" Desmognathus santeetlah Santeetlah Dusky Salamander Desmognathus monticola Seal Salamander...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...