A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...James Hood, to register for classes at the building. After President Kennedy deployed the National Guard, Wallace stepped aside, allowing the students to desegregate the University. In his 1963 inaugural...
Local Color
...harnessing the genre's equal potential for irony to expose the blindness or self-serving motives of the master class. Local Color became America’s first national literature of race. It also became...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...a classic musician, but a reenactment of the time when Bussard discovered the rarest and most valuable record in his collection (a 78 of "Original Stack O' Lee Blues" by...
Insistent Traces
Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...
Eskridge newspaper
Eskridge Star. Untitled. July 13, 1899. "We are opposed to mob law: Our civilization is too far advanced for such business: We live too far north for that kind of...
Jackson, Mississippi images
Jackson, Mississippi: Speeding Car, Farish Street Just a few blocks west of the State Capitol is Farish Street, at the heart of what was once Jackson's main African American business...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...who would be my father. They married, something grew, a family and a business pumping as on the main highway. In photos I’ve seen my father brooding— a face stretched...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...a lot of prints of it for my brother and the business partner. To reshoot in 2021, it was difficult because I had to find someone with patience to go...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...forty years to overturn the Brown decision. School Choice Programs in the United States, 2019. Map by Steve Suitts. Courtesy of the Southern Education Foundation. In the short run, the...
Quilting Conversation
...specializing in the art of the United States, with an emphasis on the interwar period. Marquetta Johnson is a self-taught artist and fourth-generation quilter, known for using innovative hand-dyeing techniques....