Walt Whitman in Alabama
...from his hair on the steps of local churches. Maybe it was the end of many letters, the last of hospital days, another sleight to make his hand come alive...
California Creek, North Carolina
...through will help. I want people to be transformed. The earth needs transformation. I want people passing through here to feel a little twinge, and say, 'Something's different. I just...
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research explores the...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...the inequalities within this imagined society; inequalities that become apparent as the characters visit different districts. In the following clip, Dawud Anyabwile describes how Big City can be interpreted as...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...experienced an influx of Latino immigrants after 2000, as the overall Latino population of Durham grew rapidly. With a mix of single-family homes and apartment complexes built during different periods, the...
And the Prize Goes to...
...asked many of the scholars on the syllabus to share their top five "tips" for best reading practices. The students also gathered hints from others who need to read quickly...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s, ed. Shawn Lay (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992): 56. Car ownership represented enormous pride and expanded opportunity for many...
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
...results portray Atlanta as divided into three sections that vote very differently: the South Side, Middle Atlanta, and the North Side. South Side voters tend to be Democrats and members...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...energy that differentiate locations from one another. In this clip, she elaborates on her interpretation of topophilia, a concept cultural geographer Yi-Fu Tuan coined to articulate the strong sense of...