Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...GeoBrowse tool allows visitors to browse documents in the collection by geographical location. Beyond the political and legal challenges, the actual construction of the Parkway proved difficult at best and...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...Saul. The oral histories in the NOLA Hip-hop Archive all engage with the specifics of local geographies, many of which are now forever altered post-Katrina. Former No Limit recording artist...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...5, viii. In Bennett's sense, Kara Walker's creation is representative of slavery, but also of our generalized excess and hyperconsumption, in which organic and inorganic (human, animal, metal, and meteorological)...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
...spending the 2012–2013 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow at The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. This presentation is drawn from his book project, Sounding...
Seneca Quarry
1823 Seneca Quarry workmen payroll. 1823 payroll. National Archives & Records Administration, Records Group 42: Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, 1790–1992....
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...doing so, although the privilege of whiteness carried with it the ability to traverse physical, sexual, and social boundaries. In addition to race, differentials of class, gender, and sexuality further...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...is perhaps Karp's most original contribution, he catalogues naval reforms around midcentury that were spearheaded by two Virginians: Secretary of the Navy Abel Upshur and Superintendent of the US Naval...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...Many customers bring their own Crown Royal, which is acceptable as long as they buy mixers. By ten o’clock, although the lounge grows smoky and raucous, a code of behavior...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...Jackson Company camp, outside Lockhart, Alabama. Alexander Irvine, "My Life in Peonage," Appleton's Magazine, July 1907, 3. Inside the box car, outside Lockhart, Alabama. Alexander Irvine, "My Life in Peonage,"...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
...sheeting from raw cotton at the Katherine Plant of Springs Mills (now Springs Global) in Chester, South Carolina in 2006. About the Photographer Pressly Hall is a professional freelance photographer...