John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...the ability to think, to ascertain available courses of action, and to then act in one's best interest. When that interest runs counter to that of one's captors—who here wanted...
Local Color
...that local color writing first articulated for American audiences. From William Faulkner in the Delta to Flannery O'Connor in middle Georgia to Lee Smith in the Appalachians, the South's best...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...think is the best way— Mitchell: —That’s right— Jim Bunkley: For the sound, that’s the way you have to play. Mitchell: So you learned off Blind Lemon records? Jim Bunkley:...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...the end, we did our best to wrangle an honest character study. Top, one of Ryan Gainey's garden rooms, Decatur, Georgia, 2010. Bottom, Ryan Gainey, Decatur, Georgia, 2015. Screenshots from...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...published in a best-selling segregationist pamphlet in an attempt to discredit the behavior of black activists. It was also published in Jet magazine where it questioned the unjust use of...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...sing to heal the language of its long service as a tool. Greatest of the fingerpickers, lost in dark mud, I do not know about the god of the fathers,...
Birmingham, Alabama images
...1963-- shortly before morning services were to begin--the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four African American girls. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...1930. Brochure by Advertising Service Agency. Courtesy of Daniel A. Pollock. Kytle and Roberts inventory various iterations of the dominant slavery narrative and provide valuable details that include microhistories of...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...between 1910 and 1920 (6). Mexican refugees going to Marfa, Texas, ca. 1910–1915. Photograph by Bain News Service. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/item/2014695398. Villanueva's...