2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...of Paula Vitaris in the Creative Writing Program, and especially the planning and organization carried out singlehandedly by the remarkable Sarita Alami to whom I owe the greatest of debts....
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...after the defeat of the Confederate States of America, however, Richmond stubbornly clung to its "lost cause." Led by its veterans and ladies associations, the city put up a massive...
Local Color
...in a detached, and also non-vernacular voice that controls the portrayals of quainter but also less accomplished types in the inside story. The double structures are designed to highlight the...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...suburbia's perceived artificiality, conformity, and sterility. Photographers from Paul Strand to Joel Meyerowitz capture and implicitly comment upon the iconic white picket fence. One tragedy of US homeownership is the...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In North Carolina, the state Supreme Court rejected a request filed by several state organizations asking that recently re-elected Justice Paul Newby recuse...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...the United States: Greetings from "The Lone Star State," a postcard commonly sold in Texas. Courtesy of Virginia Stuart-Taylor, The Well-Travelled Postcard. I'm skeptical of generalizing from Texas to broader...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...alone I thought it might be the proverbial train wreck of colliding stereotypes, but like most passersby of an accident I had to stare at least a little. A writer...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...was African American. The stacked rows of small black boxes that support the platform suggest the unacknowledged role of African Americans in upholding this culture and sustaining its economic structure....
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...suggest throughout the book that they wish to help bring about change; specifically, to "participate in new thinking about how we can best divest ourselves of our addiction to petrochemicals,...