Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...South Carolina state capitol in Columbia. Many other "Protect the Flag" rallies popped up, mainly in the South. The Southern Poverty Law Center is tracking these events through an online...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
Debby Holcombe, Cover of booklet for "Georgia Harmonies: Celebrating Georgia Roots Music," 2012. Image courtesy of the Center for Public History, University of West Georgia. On April 14, the exhibition...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...guide authority centered on the meals that visiting groups enjoyed while underground. Willis repeatedly expresses a desire to peek inside of Stephen's basket, which was filled with various provisions; he...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...work documenting the stories of the pioneers and legends who helped to create New Orleans rap and bounce. Housed by the Amistad Research Center and the Tulane University Digital Library,...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...a cultural center in the 1960s kicked off a "racialized remapping" of the neighborhood (28). In the 1980s new residents straddling color and class lines were drawn to the neighborhood's...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...Binding," in Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, and the Book Arts, ed. Charles Alexander (Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1995), 47. Kennedy's posters, on which he literally spells...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...seem to say and do as they, in effect, work against the impositions of a proto-regional colonial demarcation. On the one hand, Howe works to decenter Indian removal—without repressing its...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...no longer "the center of the political universe." To me this was wrongheaded. First of all, as Jim Cobb pointed out in his own reaction to the piece, since when...
"Aint that Something?"
...from Oregon's RACC, and an NEA Fellowship to the Hambidge Center for the Arts. He's been awarded fellowships or scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...1930s Lee's biographer and the editor of the Richmond News Leader, Douglas Southall Freeman, lived just a few blocks from the monument. Freeman placed Lee at the center of his...