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
...from the relatively small southern and eastern communities of Tuskegee and Harlem. Such a play between similarity and difference provides the animating tension of the poem. For instance, Great-Uncle Paul's...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...the threshold of citizenship" (16), being considered, for instance, as three-fifths of a person in the 1787 US Constitution (11). She links this disaggregation to the process of creolization, which,...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...adds that she will see the pro-paving residents of Shining Waters in hell before she allows them to destroy a road that had rich local significance (PK, 117). A Plague...
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
...accessed December 31, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baSgYQtkTSI&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=RiceUniversity. This animation was also displayed at Houston's Heritage Society in 2015 as part of the six month installation "Throughout: Houston's GLBT History." https://vimeo.com/485557485 This time-lapse...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...we discuss it. Chamaco ([Kiddo], 2004 English translation by William Gregory) is the first installment of the trilogy. It was first published in Spanish from Ediciones Alarcos and then translated...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...as much attention as battle facts. Gone with the Wind, for instance, as a bestselling novel and blockbuster movie has shaped popular perception of the Civil War more than the...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...founded a fictional group, "Friends of Salt Creek," built a website, and started exploring with my students.2For a timeline see Friends of Salt Creek, Accessed April 11, 2023, https://friendsofsaltcreek.org/; for...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...regional writing outside of the context of its original publication and reception.1"Regional writing" is the received critical vocabulary for the literature Hardwig treats. See, for instance, Stephanie Foote's Regional Fictions:...