Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...occurred at predominantly black rural churches from Arkansas to Virginia, targeted the very places that writer Amiri Baraka has described as the "social focal points" of black life.3LeRoi Jones, Blues...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
Readings Patrick Phillips reads "Brass Knuckles." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "The Chimney." Poem text. Patrick Phillips reads "The Flood." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "Heaven." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads an excerpt...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
...Studies from Yale University and is an assistant professor in English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Our South (2010, Harvard University Press)....
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
Review Rowan County Court House and Jail, Salisbury, North Carolina, circa 1905-1915. Courtesy of the Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at...
"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
...conference and Popham's biography. A Virginia native, Popham was sent by the New York Times to cover the US South in the mid-twentieth century. In 1958, after twenty-five years on...
Letter: Blues
...hooks. A sidewalk crack in Washington, D.C. Will feed my city dirt roots. Wait for me. Published in The Venus Hottentot (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1990). Published: 10...
The Bulletin—February 11, 2013
...of forty-five minutes to cast their votes. "[M]ore than 200,000 voters in Florida 'gave up in frustration,'" according to an Orlando Sentinel report. Maryland, South Carolina, and Virginia also faced long lines...
Dirty Little Story
Essay Map of Fish Trap Hollow and northeastern Mississippi, 2012. ©OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. The visitors are from Virginia, a state that simply sounds clean. There are two young children and a...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...of a copy of a copy of blackface minstrel stereotypes. About the Author Grace Elizabeth Hale teaches cultural history and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the...
Making History
All I know of the Spanish-American War is what Virginia boys, kept safe at college, etched into the mortar with their pencils so that leaning against a brick wall a...