Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...a brick wall a hundred years later, I can make out Cuba Libre! and Remember the Maine! I don't remember the Maine, only that a Cuba Libre is made of rum, Coke, and lime....
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...scholarship on canonical author Flannery O'Connor embodies this approach. Students can examine a photo essay of Andalusia (the farm near Milledgeville, Georgia, where O'Connor spent the last thirteen years of...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together? Part 2: Womack analyzes Posey’s representation of the vexed relationships between Creeks and Freedmen in the Creek Confederacy...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...photograph of a soldier, likely drawn from the cache of images Bailey inherited from his grandmother.2 As Thompson notes in her catalogue essay “During his last year of art school,...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
© Brian Gauvin, Pratt Drive and Robert E. Lee Avenue at the breach in the 17th Street Canal Levee, Lakeview, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 27, 2005. Seven years ago, from...
Birdhouses
...year-round. My younger daughter, Emma, startled us last spring when she reached upward as a sparrow shot from an oak tree, her hands cupped as if to catch rain, and...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...father and stepmother of the twenty-three-year-old reported him missing to the authorities. A search of Jerome, as well as the neighboring camp at Rohwer, where Yoshida's sister lived, thirty miles...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...hands."5Audie Cornish, "Artist Kara Walker Draws Us Into Bitter History With Something Sweet," National Public Radio, May 16, 2014, accessed June 30, 2014, http://www.npr.org/2014/05/16/313017716/artist-kara-walker-draws-us-into-bitter-history-with-something-sweet. Sugar Sublime: Kara Walker, Domino sugar,...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...a different way. At the University of Georgia, a mob greeted Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter when they entered in 1961. A year later, two civilians died when James Meredith...