Early Roller Coaster Patents
"A flurry of patents [for roller coaster designs] issued in 1884 coincides approximately with Thompson's ride at Coney Island. The patents of Wood (US #291,261 Circular Gravity-Railway) and Stevens (US...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...the Bundren family itself, As I Lay Dying is Faulkner's most experimental page-turner. Actors Logan Marshall-Green, Tim Blake Nelson, Danny McBride, and James Franco in an excerpt from Franco's adaptation...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...of four members of a local white farming family, the Lyerlys. The judge overseeing the case had called in a local military company to protect the jail and restrain the...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...of passion and self-expression over craft. It also meant playing “just for fun” rather than with any public acknowledgement that music could be a career or way of earning a...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
Review: Something magical is on display in a tiny gallery at the University of Virginia Art Museum, a small selection of photographs that play off each other like the ingredients...
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...
Anniversary
Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...any other public leaders. Brian Howard, "Religion in Africa: Tolerance and Trust in Leaders are High, but Many Would Allow Regulation of Religious Speech," Afrobarometer Dispatch no. 339 (2020), https://afrobarometer.org/sites/default/files/publications/Policy%20papers/ab_r7_dispatchno339_pap12_religion_in_africa.pdf....