"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...supervision. Comics and Murals Long perceived as reliable messengers in Bangladesh, local artists often translate crucial information into personable and understandable forms. Working with these artists, BRAC delivered COVID-19 information...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...vol. 58 (McClure, Phillips and Company, ca. 1900). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. In the final chapter, Smith delves into the H.L. Hunley, a proud piece...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...projects whose full intellectual import may not otherwise become recognized throughout the academy. In addition to providing a working model for collaborative, multi-modal scholarship, HyperCities' authors—particularly Presner—synthesize well-known theorizations of...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...of singers immediately asked to sing the song that way. The singers were delighted with the result, and Brittain decided he was happy to have the song sung in either...
A City Divided
...black Fourth Warders declined each. Faced with effective black resistance, Jackson Hill's white home-owning residents met in October 1910 to delineate a fourteen block area in the neighborhood with a...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...slaveholder with extreme delicacy, if at all. White visitors often bristle at the mention of Lee as the owner of slaves and have difficulty accepting the fact that he and...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...States is here generally broken into a number of subgenres of rap and bounce, though the definitions and boundaries of these categories are fluid and often change according to whom...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...did write in and of the agrarian Deep South for which Andalusia provided a model. The 544-acre estate consists of "gently rolling hills divided into a farm complex, hayfields, pastures,...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...to national and transnational trade: "It has always been exceedingly difficult to ascertain the exact number of slaves in the Southern states; the usual estimate is about four and a...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...solid dark red (similar to the red in Mary's Tulip) and a delicate print of five-pointed stars in red and brown superimposed over a pale-yellow grid printed on white. The...