Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...conventions mixed with popular memory, amateur and "professional" history, the study of folklore, and decades of activism by southern "heritage" societies. We know that this thing called the South—a new...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013); Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (New York: Knopf, 2014); and Edward E....
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...107). (Perhaps predictably, New Orleans reciprocated his affection: Hearn remains an important figure in New Orleans history and lore.) Hardwig helps us to make sense of some of Hearn's most...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...a Man he doesn't locate new venues for the blues, or new and original song writing. Instead, he assembles an impressive array of established artists to perform old tunes by...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...the opera house, so that an otherwise all too typical lynching became national, and even international, news. The story, for instance, appeared in a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, along...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...to their bank-robbing exploits. Even his novel The Revisionists (2011), although set in a dystopian future, examines historical agency. Mullen's newest book, Darktown (2016), is set in the racially polarized,...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...their newsletter, Skip Two Periods, to "Discovering Our Heritage." The writer, "B. F.," wrote about finding her heritage at the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, in Jonathan Ned Katz's book...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
...of spatial perspectives into the study of nineteenth-century US health and economics history. Kennedy is the lead investigator of the New Orleans Mortality Project, and from 2012 to 2015 he...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...the other way to west, to wilderness, to where the future waits to open out its shining promise, destiny. Backwater meant new water then, where greatness waited, tilted toward the...