Brushes with War
...after the First Battle of Bull Run. While waiting for the exhibition doors to open, I had the good luck to meet a gifted combat artist, retired Marine Corps veteran...
The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
Today’s post is the first in an ongoing series compiling links related to news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively...
Residues of Border Control
...United States but also reflect the fate of those for whom the crossing meant imprisonment and deportation. Photographs taken at the border hint at the lives that migrants started in...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Rap Group at the Source Awards 1995," YouTube video, 5:36, posted by The Max Trailers, October 12, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwLG7aSYM3w. Held in Gallery 72, attendees enjoyed a visual art exhibit featuring Atlanta-inspired pieces by the LiFT...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...Brown University, JCB Map Collection, 05266–1. Given this all-encompassing mission statement, some readers might expect the volume to explore a range of issues connecting Louisiana to the wider Atlantic world...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...was when O'Connor lived there with her mother Regina Cline O'Connor. It has two large front parlors with a central hallway on the ground floor. O'Connor's bedroom and writing place...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
Reading John Lane reads the poem "Returning Home, Saxon Mills." Poem text. About the Author John Lane teaches environmental studies at Wofford College where he also directs the Goodall Center for...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...sold and that she is running away to save her child" from Uncle Tom's Cabin. Read together, the "loyalist" plantation romance and the "fugitive" slave narrative speak to one another...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...South. Although southern rural music expressed the hopes, aspirations, failures, and hardships of rural people, farming culture remained invisible to most listeners. The work culture that produced the music—farmers plowing,...
The Klan Tableau
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