Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...century. A fragment dating from about 1750, found at a Charleston archeological site, is the earliest evidence of the tens of thousands of bandannas imported into this country. By the...
Chattanooga, Tennessee images
Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...
Frank Willis
...friend Jennifer said so, never went to the Jefferson Memorial, climbed the stone rhino at the Smithsonian, cursed tourists, took exquisite phone messages for my father, a race man, who...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...bring the fish. It was good, for a while. . . ." "Watch your step, too," Daniel Scott told me on the way through the plant site. "That was like...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
Presentation Responses About the Speakers Kirk Savage is a professor of art history and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively on public monuments within the theoretical context...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...sentimental, full of clenched drama and secrets and surprises but always subtle."5Quotes taken from Pancake's personal website, http://www.annpancake.blogspot.com. Pancake has received the Bakeless Literary Award for short story writing, a...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research explores the...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...universe in a forthcoming Brotherman comic book to be released later this year. For more information on Brotherman comics and how to access related MARBL materials, visit the MARBL website. ...
The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
...weeks and forced all abortion sites to register as ambulatory surgical centers. Davis previously filibustered a budget that saw huge cuts to education for eight hours. Although that budget ultimately...
Threshing crew in the Tygart Valley, West Virginia, August 1936
...of agricultural production during the Great Depression. More of Mydans's photographs from the Tygart Valley can be found on the Library of Congress website. Carl Mydans, Threshing crew loading bundles,...