Early Roller Coaster Patents
...roller coaster" is remarkably similar to the titles of both patents." - Victor Canfield. 2001. "U.S. Rollercoaster History From Patents" from http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/v/a/vac3/history.html) A. Wood, Circular Gravity Railway (U.S. Patent...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...airplane and boat suggest parallel devotional differences between Miami's mostly lower-class "Little Haiti" and various middle- and upper-class suburban enclaves. Haitians in middle- and upper-class neighborhoods outside of Miami (such...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...time "in France at the war" (244). In fact, his breakdown on the train to Jackson, which is "further away than crazy" (252), is not depicted, and it would be...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
Essay Here’s for an expanding hope. —Oh-OK, “Brother,” 1982 Oh-OK, Furthermore What cover, DB Records, 1984. If you want to start an argument, just ask any 40- to 50-ish-year-old fan...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...less in these geographical facts than in their process and practice of return and the way their works layer space and time to evoke loss. All photographs play with time....
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...small community emerged from poverty and built thriving businesses in plastics and direct-marketing. Osburn is especially interested in how the Choctaws navigated their way through Mississippi's racial currents, as powerful...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...superheroes to the DC universe in 1994, Brotherman paved the way for black-authored superheroes in American popular culture. Brotherman tells the story of Antonio Valor, a public attorney who works in the imagined...
Antietam
We all went in a yellow school bus, on a Tuesday. We sang the whole way up. We tried to picture the bodies stacked three deep on either side of...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...future is my transitioning body and the pink, white, and blue flag I fly in the driveway. The author's home in Roanoke, Virginia, 2021. Photograph by and courtesy of...