Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...status and—even better—bestsellerdom, Stein had spent three decades searching for a form and a format in which to present her writing that might help readers beyond her tiny coterie of...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...Voting Rights Act, Justice Kegan's dissent suggests she knows law better than history. She mentions "a march from Selma to Birmingham." It was in fact the Selma to Montgomery march...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...ended with promises for bigger, better, and more.3cyclops, "Celebration . . . Very Gay," Great Speckled Bird, July 5, 1971, 2. Bill went home to see himself on the evening...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...that our worlds never fall apart, in taking the day-to-day for granted. We like to think we know better (“Here today, gone tomorrow,” and all that). Whatever we know doesn’t...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...neighborhoods of parishioners the churches served. After he mapped locations of parish churches and available census data, Atkinson identified a less straightforward geographic relationship between churches and constituents. Atkinson concluded...
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...Pietà Revisited, 2014. Mixed-media collage by Jonathan Kent Adams. Freedom?, 2014. Mixed-media collage by Jonathan Kent Adams. Hoosier Hospitality, March 30, 2015. Photograph by Flickr user Mike Licht. Creative Commons...
The State House Aflame 1833
...the purchase of his freedom from John Marlow. The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire, We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn Published in Blood...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
...a time, birthing death. Though sometimes it all works out. I turn a calf's head and then like a safe's combination the womb unlocks, calf slides free, or this night...