African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...and mothers were characteristic of Black households. But there was no tolerance for women pursuing artistic careers away from home and family. Alonzo Herndon, atypical for the men of his...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
...brief history of Andersonville Prison and the Battle of Petersburg Part 5: Wood suggests theories for the diverging sets of planks in the lower portion of Homer’s painting Part 6: Wood ponders...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...Mardi Gras, New Orleans’s quintessential event, briefly contrasting elite visions of an orderly ritual of power with the cheerful anarchy of carnival in the street. The contrast, he suggests, is...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...insists, it was not the River Jordan (69). Along with a multifaceted explanation of these complications, Salafia also offers a provocative meditation on the meanings of southern spaces, both physical...
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...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...real places in which real people interacted with each other in order to boost real human flourishing. Surrounded by New Right politics, evangelical social conservatism, and corporate-dominated life, we worked...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Lancaster County, South Carolina. This account stresses several years of physical and mental decline and, underlying it, a temperament vulnerable to depression. This tendency is reported also in several other...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
Video Transcript 0:28 – This is the Cabretta Island relict marsh, which crops out along the sandy shoreline of Cabretta Beach. Near it are a tidal channel, salt marshes, tidal...
Making History
...What I know of sacrifice is the tin spoons that always fall into my dorm room radiator. Cereal:spoon. Ice milk:spoon. The world is lousy with spoons. The world is lousy...
Scarecrow
...cawed Unmoved, their plucking a parade. The wind blew the odor of death In my direction. I had a mind To cry; I shut my marble eyes Too afraid to...