Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...of the 'place' of the photographs in the moment and in the history of the movement, interpreting what information rests within the frame of a given photograph and acknowledging that...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...such as New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. Never taken too seriously by most scholars, Miami remains a deeply understudied city. As election polls and media reports often suggest, it...
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Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
This week's featured image was inspired by my own search for information about my newly adopted neighborhood of Cabbagetown, a former milltown on Atlanta's east side. With its perilous, narrow...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...the South, Volume I (Atlanta: The Confederate Publishing Company, 1899). Reprint (Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2004), 358. President Lincoln did not believe that southern states had a right...
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...and its regions, or to issues of space and place. We welcome contributions and projects relating to any time period or musical genre and from any (inter)disciplinary framework. We especially...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...band director stationed at Fort McPherson, Georgia—explicitly framed his singing school as teaching the style of Sacred Harp singing practiced in West Georgia in the early 1970s. Other singing teachers...
The Border South
...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...birth and shortly after delivering? Antebellum physicians could not ascribe white women's frailties to black women, Weiner argues, because the primary function of the black race was to perform hard...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...showing the locations of Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, 1882. Courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, catalog number 98688791. Fevered Measures surveys smallpox and yellow fever epidemics...