Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...Biggers Papers, Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. In July 1957, Houston-based artist John Biggers traveled on a United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) fellowship to...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...and other scholars have been so busy whittling away at that old standard story that today only a stump remains. Even the National History Standards, written and approved during a...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...of jazz, brass band, R&B, and funk (as well as blues and zydeco). What might all be lumped into the single category of "hiphop" in other parts of the United...
Besieged Terrain
...today. Site of a strip mine on the south-southeast border of Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy of Kentucky Heartwood. The technique used to get the coal, called mountain top...
The Chesapeake Bay
...human systems and the close interaction between environmental shifts and human societal, economic, and even political change. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and its...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
..."the greatest." His speech, however, gestured toward Atlanta's emerging place on the world stage. "For one hundred years, the Olympic Games have inspired great dreams," he rhapsodized. "Today, the dream...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...United States. Here, engraved on shiny Zimbabwe granite, are hundreds of names. You have come to this pier seeking this place, seeking what Heather Love calls an "emotional rescue," a...
When the Border Crossed Me
...freedom to stay in place and their need to leave home to keep their farm alive. I was a beginning farmer hiring seasoned agriculturalists from another country to help make...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...is an indigenous Haitian religion, closely related to West African Vodun, that draws from multiple West African religions, in addition to Roman Catholicism, European mysticism, and freemasonery. Most practitioners of...