Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...of passing as a member of another race, class, or gender was anathema to the sort of "realistic" reportage that readers expected from the periodical press. Hardwig notes the irony...
Residues of Border Control
...the Durham Arts Council, 2000. The image is a page from an alphabet book produced in class. The maps are Polaroid images of a large map in the classroom where...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...esoteric that it no longer provides us the language we can use in our class rooms and home communities? My hope is that we can face these questions together. Panel...
Brushes with War
...General George McClellan's Peninsula Campaign of 1862. In 1863, working as an illustrator for Harper's Weekly and taking art classes at night, the aspiring artist told a friend he hoped...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...James Hood, to register for classes at the building. After President Kennedy deployed the National Guard, Wallace stepped aside, allowing the students to desegregate the University. In his 1963 inaugural...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...half million. . . . These human chattels, the property of three hundred and forty-seven thousand slave owners, constitute the basis of the working class of the entire south."5Sarah Parker Remond,...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...subjects and their classifications with less rigidity. Critiques notwithstanding, Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South synthesizes an impressive array of primary and secondary scholarship in ways helpful to...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...a classic musician, but a reenactment of the time when Bussard discovered the rarest and most valuable record in his collection (a 78 of "Original Stack O' Lee Blues" by...
Insistent Traces
Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...
Eskridge newspaper
Eskridge Star. Untitled. July 13, 1899. "We are opposed to mob law: Our civilization is too far advanced for such business: We live too far north for that kind of...