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...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...Conference, as well as the 2009 Friends of Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the 2008 Maureen Egen Exchange Award from Poetry & Writers, and the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...early to late twentieth century, Ossabaw's ownership changed several times, but the island remained largely undeveloped and sparsely inhabited. The last private owners were members of the Torrey family, starting...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...account of the 'Tunes,' but my object has been to change the flow of those sweet melodies (so often disgraced by Comic Negro Songs, and sung by our own people,)...
Transcript: "Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield
...what poor little Lucy Mae do That Tuesday woman, she took pocket change That Wednesday woman, she wanna do the same Better not let my good gal catch you here...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
We can all remember when the Covid reality fully hit, that moment when we were forced to confront the stark news and the hard arrival of abrupt change. I remember...