The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...at odds with his effort to write a history of one civil rights activist in the pre- and post-World War I periods. Nixon's life reveals much about the engagement of...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002) and Brian DeLay, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009). Wahlstrom does...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...squeeze, bind.'" See "sphinx (n.)," in Online Etymology Dictionary, ed. Douglas Harper, accessed June 30, 2014, http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sphinx. The contracting sphincter muscles of the esophagi, anus, or vagina derive from the...
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
...their productions and attracted new audiences on Zoom. Impelled by the pandemic, artists from around the world gathered online in August 2020, for the Edinburgh International Festival’s “Artists in the...
And the Prize Goes to...
...scholarly writing. Students worked with Allison Wright—who sifts through some nine thousand online submissions each year as the managing editor for Virginia Quarterly Review—to develop an early-semester workshop on strategies and...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...flannel "costumes"—coats and trousers for the men, and for the ladies petticoats, bloomers, and "stuffed skull-caps"—that were meant to protect heads from painful bumps against the cave ceiling. Tourists would...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...the emergence of "anti-Bourbons"—entertainment zones that offer a putatively more authentic alternative. In the process, Campanella shows how geographic, demographic, and economic features shape the Street's character and success, parses...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...South, but another social institution developed to carry Sacred Harp music forward — the singing convention. Conventions would last several days and bring together the faithful, many traveling several days...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...bring together research projects, resources, and information about the Atlanta metro region and inspire new scholarship. Atlanta Studies (www.AtlantaStudies.org), which launched Feb. 16, is an open-access online publication that features...
Religion and the US South
...Preacher, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ca. 1844. Lithograph by P.S. Duval. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Collection, www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3g04543/. During the era of Reconstruction many Blacks joined northern-based...