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...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...the exchange of ideas, and the creation of memories with moving through particular spaces. If we float over Austin in Slacker, we are grounded in the European streets of Before,...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...following the jazz giant's death in Brooklyn earlier that year. High-culture mandarins weren't bashful about voicing displeasure with the name change, insisting there were better places to celebrate “jungle music”...
Remembering Documentary Filmmaker George Stoney
Documentary filmmaker George Stoney, 96, died this week. His films include The Uprising of '34 (1995), about a large and violent strike in the southern textile industry in 1934, and...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
...Forsyth County, outlining how racism has shaped the image of community Part 4: Phillips discusses poetry, social change, and ambiguity; “Baptism and the role of the church; and disappearing places...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...Alabama vs. USC and the Game that Changed a Nation (Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2007); Mark Wangrin, "The Gradual Arrival of Integration Revolutionized the Sport," in ESPN College Football...
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...that represents tangible social change, we focused upon a few key images. Inside, we saw a furnace that was radiating heat. No one seemed aware that this space was still...
The State House Aflame 1833
Fire can burn brands on a slave's skin as he changes hands like cattle. And chattel slavery in a capital city is as old as fire and man. Milledgeville's no...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...remembered from living there as a child—landscapes and cityscapes that were completely and permanently changed. Somehow I had gotten into the Gentilly neighborhood and was searching for an exit. Vaguely...