Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...furniture in the sitting room included, among other items, a walnut writing table, two bookcases with glass doors, one lot of about a hundred books "including cyclopedias and books of...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...legislated and upheld, allowing laws like Mississippi's HB 1523 to remain on the books. At least for now. Given the shifted balance of the Supreme Court, it is my hope...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...Sacred Harp singing and specific places have long been a part of the musical form. These connections are even indexed in The Sacred Harp songbook. Composers of many Sacred Harp...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Land," http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/272. Accessed October 7, 2011. Her photographs of abandoned commissaries, churches and houses sit alongside scenes of mostly barren fields in winter or early spring. Clay’s work does not...
Seneca Quarry
...Smithsonian." I've been researching and writing a broad history of Seneca quarry over the past year, a book called The Smithsonian Castle and The Seneca Quarry, which the History Press will...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...(accessed December 7, 2009). In his book The Texture of Memory, James Young acknowledges the dynamics of memorialization by suggesting: "it may also be true that the surest engagement with...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...built there because they had already claimed land concessions in the area. Powell’s book chronicles the town’s history from the time of Bienville to the Battle of New Orleans, explaining...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...lynchings, which had attracted national attention, despite the fact that his family had lived in the area for generations. A significant purpose of this book was to "excavate" (p. xv)...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...in the American South (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004); Calvin Schermerhorn, Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011)....
Birdhouses
...for Academic Affairs at Virginia Military Institute. His publications include Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in Literary History and Criticism (University of Alabama Press, 2002) and three books on Erskine...