Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...such as the Civil War, the agricultural depression of the late nineteenth century, and the transition from a rural to an urban and industrialized economy. In each of these instances,...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...interpenetration of locality and racial consciousness in American poetry between Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and Barack Obama's inauguration. Tentatively titled "The Ditch is Nearer: Race, Place, and American Poetry," the project will treat...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...collective subject in readings of American naturalist William Bartram (1739–1833). Bartram's drawings of flora, fauna, and Cherokee Americans are based on observations and notes taken during his journey to Georgia,...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...(Fleming), who became pregnant at age seventeen and eloped with the baby's father, Cricket Fleming. The baby, a son named Richard, died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome only a few...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...in a particular field, like historical background so that, for instance, you can make sense of nineteenth-century language patterns. What I find interesting is that digital projects by necessity require...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...and cruising area at the back. That said, I am also grateful for a reminder from an anonymous peer reviewer that "owners of bath houses, bars, or cinemas sometimes faced...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...include the early twentieth-century feminist poet María Luisa Milanés (from Bayamo, Cuba) in Bayamesa (2019), which was awarded the Casa de las Américas prize for theater in January of 2020....
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
Introduction to the Battle of Atlanta Project Confederate and Union troops in close combat, Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Painting by the American Panorama Company. The fall of...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...Atlantic, June 1862, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1862/06/walking/304674/. Bartlett Pond https://vimeo.com/809578671/7e81299b55 Bartlett Pond [27.75246525706928, -82.639758963437] At Bartlett Park, tucked behind Twenty-Second Avenue and Fourth Street, Salt Creek opens into a muddy pool. This little...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...literary history of the imagined South—and a much more complex rendering of the cultural work of local color writing. For instance, Hardwig valiantly pushes back against the purported provincialism of...