Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...Biggers Papers, Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. In July 1957, Houston-based artist John Biggers traveled on a United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) fellowship to...
Finding Media
...media that can be difficult to find. When we were looking for a film clip that illustrated post-World War II attitudes towards Japan in the United States for Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci’s...
US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces
Natasha Trethewey interviewing Elizabeth Alexander, 2009. From Southern Spaces. This week, Natasha Trethewey was named the United States Poet Laureate. As we celebrate and congratulate her, we wanted to take...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...Haley announced that she will appoint Congressman Tim Scott (R-Charleston) to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by Republican Senator Jim DeMint. When he is sworn into office in...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
...291,261; January 1, 1884) P.M. Stevens, Roller Coasting Device (U.S. Patent 298,710; May 18,1884) Early Roller Coaster Patents circa 1884 gif images United States Patent and Trademark Office ...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...successful landscaper in the 1980s. He is renowned for pairing English garden aesthetics with native plants of the southeastern United States. As is evident in the introduction of this short...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...but its last appearance is in 1807—a year before the United States prohibited the importation of slaves. This shift in the visuality of slavery might be of interest to scholars...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has launched a campaign to bring back Virginia's anti-sodomy law.1 The first proposed law on sodomy in the newly formed United States of America was introduced...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...the northeastern United States after the end of slavery there. Putting on the face paint or "blacking up"—playing black men—gave white men a way to work through their own inadmissible...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States (1995), examines the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...