Sea Changes in Personhood
...enslaved at age seven, and deported to Boston at age eight. The author reads Wheatley's life as a series of "removes" (115) that translate into her poetry as a passage...
Birdhouses
...said her first word: burrr. Despite my ignorance of birds, I have made many photographs of birdhouses that accumulate in a series called Southern Places. I take most of the...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...lynchings occurred, it was undergoing a process of change into a "New South" city. In the late nineteenth century, the population had grown alongside new factories, mills, and other industrial...
Huntsville, Alabama images
Huntsville, Alabama: Big Spring International Park Attracted by a fast-flowing spring, John Hunt, the founder of Huntsville, built a cabin here in 1805. Six years later, Huntsville became the first...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...Hall in Onllywyn, South Wales. The video recordings filmed between 1974 and 1976 in South Wales and Appalachia set the stage for John Gaventa's later work with the Highlander Research...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...the nostalgic reminiscences of a collector's career. Roots music, both the new iterations produced today as well as earlier songs and styles that continue to circulate, is often placed at...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...A guest book contains testimonies of the latest Virginians: “My family is from the southernmost island of the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago,” “My family came from the Mayflower from England,”...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Atlanta are welcome, but priority will be given to papers that relate in some way to the themes listed above. Preference will also be given to proposals for fully constituted...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...that introduced Abraham Lincoln to the slave trade first-hand, an experience he later credited as pivotal in shaping his nascent anti-slavery sentiments. He confided in a letter to a friend...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...