Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...touchstones in the narratives of many New Orleans hip-hop and bounce artists, and these continuities of time and space are told here through the artists' own words. The site goes...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...witnessed a national investment in an imagined South that quickly turned into a cultural obsession. In the wake of a catastrophic civil war, this supposedly "real South" became a site...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
Interview Photographer unknown, Tuskegee Airmen gathered at a U.S. base after a mission in the Mediterranean theater, February 1944. Courtesy of the United States National Archives and Records Administration. Part...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...with the idea that blacks supported the Confederacy.6Washington Post, October 20, 2010 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/19/AR2010101907974.html) and October 24, 2010 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/22/AR2010102203429.html). Various Sons of Confederate Veterans sites have suggested that tens of thousands...
Brushes with War
...DC exhibition, Harvey placed Near Andersonville opposite Homer's more famous image, Prisoners from the Front, which has long been an icon of Civil War painting. Homer completed both pictures early...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...a frequent guest blogger on The Best American Poetry, and one of his poems, "The Truth About the Present," was recently featured on The Academy of American Poets' Poets.org site....
New Shades o'Death Creek
...site above McRoberts, Kentucky, 2005. The Old Road had once been the only way to Charleston, before the four-lane highway — still new to Lydde — went in. They wound...
Visualizing Spatial History: The Example of Rio de Janeiro
Presentation Part 2: Frank provides an overview of the Stanford Spatial History Project Part 3: Frank discusses creating visualizations that evoke patterns and varieties of spatial mobility, consciousness, and power...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...