Submission Process
...of internal review. The staff looks at several criteria: Quality: Does the piece do critical/analytical work, or is it only illustrative/descriptive? Does the content meet our standards in terms of...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...includes 1,600 color photographs taken between 1939 and 1944. Many of the images depict rural farming practices, social life in towns, factories and their environmental effects, and aspects of World...
New Website for Music Memory
...a new project which would create a digital repository of historical sound recordings—accompanied by discographical information, music notation, lyrics, and biographical information about artists and composers—to make available the tens...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...the most destructive disaster in our national experience when one considers the amount of damage it did not only to the physical and social landscapes of the Gulf region but...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...Saul. The oral histories in the NOLA Hip-hop Archive all engage with the specifics of local geographies, many of which are now forever altered post-Katrina. Former No Limit recording artist...
Buckner Gap, North Carolina
Poplar tree, Buckner Gap, NC, 1994. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Remains of the house rumored to have been the site of an illegal liquor distilling operation, near Buckner Gap,...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...with the distinctive New Orleans hiphop sound. Back at home, neighborhoods and local social aid and pleasure clubs hosted block parties and second lines featuring the dynamic sounds and dances...
Seneca Quarry
...the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, 1790–1992. The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. In all of my research, the 1823 federal...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...alone I thought it might be the proverbial train wreck of colliding stereotypes, but like most passersby of an accident I had to stare at least a little. A writer...
Work
...changing headings on library cards, and cleaning houses, to working as a chair-side dental assistant, a secretary in an occupational therapy unit, and a counselor to prisoners in a minimum-security...