Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...this transformative event that gave rebirth to a nation. He tells a compelling story, based on diaries, letters, and other archival material. A number of questions remain unanswered, however. What...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...history of the sack demonstrates how, in the face of structural forces that systematically alienated property from enslaved and liberated people of color, a single material object was inherited, preserved,...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...fairness, but they are also much more. The success or failure of these children in the public schools will determine the nation's future educational potential. Without improving educational support for...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...fellow conspirators, tasting two thousand oysters from all along the Gulf Coast. It was the first symposium hosted by Foodways Texas, an organization dedicated to preserving, promoting, and celebrating the...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. His book The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness won the Graywolf...
J-Mill on Regulating
...unique twist has been added that distinguishes the Miami style of DJing from others around the country." "While some DJ's rely on their ability to cut records with their unique...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...political processes."9Shelby County v. Holder, Oral Arguments, 47. Scalia's description of the Voting Rights Act as a "racial entitlement" is an outrageous, ahistorical use of language—undertaken by a judge who...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...and places in the US South. These posts investigate the geographical, historical, and cultural study of real and imagined southern spaces through the lens of archival sources and materials and...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...in Emory's Department of Environmental Studies. She is also the former associate director of the Southern Regional Council, and served as managing editor of the SRC's quarterly journal, Southern Changes....
Image Credits
...Photograph by Flickr user Ted Eytan. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. Florida panel of Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, displayed at Atlanta Pride, October 2017. Photograph by Eric Solomon. "Gay...