"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...Do Believe,” Patterson Hood calls out—maybe to Hinton—“I believe I saw your shadow looking like 1967, Percy Sledge on the radio.” Perhaps because they grew-up in and sang about North...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...Pakistan)." Not quite on par with the extremist Hindu right wing's demand in India: "Babar ki santan / Jaao Pakistan ya Kabristan" ("Descendants of [the Mughal Emperor] Babar [i.e., Muslims...
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
...& Views from a Few Spirited Georgia Democrats" declared that the poll is important because Atlanta elections are typically decided by Middle Atlanta, with its "multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-ideology, and multi-partisan" makeup....
Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
Review By the middle decades of the nineteenth century, the cause of worldwide abolition was riding high. Nearly a half century had passed since revolutionary fervor put slavery on a...
Quilting Conversation
...assistant in Photography and Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum and managed web design, publications, and other media initiatives at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. She is...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...horrors of a San Domingo servile insurrection, consigning her citizens to assassinations and her wives and daughters to pollution and violation to satisfy the lust of half-civilized Africans."1Charles B. Dew,...
Theories of Time and Space
...loose stitches in a sky threatening rain. Cross over the man-made beach, 26 miles of sand dumped on the mangrove swamp — buried terrain of the past. Bring only what...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...watched the moon circle down. Mama sang a song to us often: “See the Man in the Moon. Mama gonna come back soon. But don’t you worry none. She won’t...
Little Ivy, North Carolina
...the Little Ivy Church Cemetery, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Mrs. Deizie Rasmussan, and her sister, at their mother’s grave before grave removal at the Little...