MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...locations for the photographs misses the point of Bradford's project. LeBourdais's decision not to map every image, focusing instead on core sites clearly identifiable in the photographs and their role...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...in modern-day Mississippi. Along the way, they faced the nearly impossible challenges of pleasing segregationist whites, asserting their own distinctiveness, and keeping black Mississippians at a distance. The 1827 Anthony...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...seen recently. The first-person viewing stage is nearly fifteen square feet and includes three seven foot high screens. The immersive visual effect comes from standing in a rotating 360 degree...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...memory. Karl Hagstrom Miller teaches in both the history department and the school of music at the University of Texas at Austin, and his work speaks persuasively and clearly across...
The Bulletin—November 1, 2012
...changes to the early voting schedule have altered the ways in which African American churches organize their early voting campaigns. According to Susan Saulny of The New York Times, these campaigns...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/item/96521560/. Inskeep presents Jackson as a crucial architect of the antebellum South. He suggests that the key moment of Jackson's early career was not...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana images
...2004, there were a number of construction projects underway in downtown Baton Rouge. Tourist on Docked Riverboat Modern-day riverboats, decorated like their nineteenth-century predecessors, transport tourists up and down...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...memorials, for the most part, people maintain their personal practices of memorial creation. Roadside memorials have faced a number of legal challenges, as state department of transportation officials and legislative...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...several of the early quilts made by the three women. Rosa most likely pieced the star and framed it in the brown square during the 1870s before setting it aside...
Piedmont Blues
...1932, and he collaborated with a number of high profile blues artists, including Ma Rainey, Gus Cannon, and Papa Charlie Jackson. Blake disappeared after his last Paramount session in 1932....