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Failed Memory Exercise
...flowerbeds For the pumps and grease rack of the new Shell; But begin again, for the dark green Lincoln rises To its lube and crests where Zetty's kitchen was: The...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...this transformative event that gave rebirth to a nation. He tells a compelling story, based on diaries, letters, and other archival material. A number of questions remain unanswered, however. What...
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...
Brushes with War
...knew it as a makeshift hospital during the Civil War, but at the gala opening last fall I found fashionable guests strolling the marble floors where wounded soldiers had sprawled...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...sent them home. Our Heroes and Our Flag, 1896. Color lithograph by Southern Lithograph Company, showing four versions of the flag of the Confederate States of America. Library of Congress,...
Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
This week's featured image was inspired by my own search for information about my newly adopted neighborhood of Cabbagetown, a former milltown on Atlanta's east side. With its perilous, narrow...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...of Georgia gardener Ryan Gainey (1944-2016) with Cooper Sanchez and Matthew Chipman. Gainey is an acclaimed garden designer and author of The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Garden of Ryan Gainey...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...the rustic name that the pattern had originated among early settlers on the frontier. For instance, a writer in 1935 stated flatly that "No Colonial home was complete without one...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...and turned their eyes from the chalkboard, and United States history, to a Kafkaesque-sized cockroach making his (or her) way leisurely across the classroom floor, giant antennae twitching as it navigated...