Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Atlanta, 1880–1950. The symposium seeks to convene an interdisciplinary meeting of scholars and activists to learn from and act on research about Atlanta, including the central city and its metropolitan...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...painstaking "by the print" method. In each bandanna, she quilted a line down the center of the figured white handkerchief border, and added parallel lines on either side. The central...
Whiskey and Geography
...of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton was oblivious to whiskey’s centrality, the whiskey rebels showed Americans that citizens had to be involved in their own governance. Whiskey had linked farmers politically,...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...casa, me despertaban enorme curiosidad las decenas de adolescentes que aguardaban apoyados en las columnas, frente al Capitolio, o rondando el Parque Central, en medio de la zona turística. ¿Qué...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...docile acceptance of incarceration—then the human agency of suicide can constitute struggle and can be equated with resistance. In the continuing, complex relationship between reportage and resistance in the concentration...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...low, only to me, “Better get them dues paid. Next check, okeh?” I nod, duck out the lot hitch a semi home down highway 50 smellin’ like crackers and peanut...
Artist Repertoire Index
This list represents the songs George Mitchell recorded in the Lower Chattahoochee region between 1969 and 1982. Bailey, Golden (1976) The Buck The Dog John Henry Sally Got the...
Excerpt from Eudora Welty's "Where is the Voice Coming From?" (1963)
...once, like a man under bad claws, and like just blood could weigh a ton he walked with it on his back to a better light. Didn't get no further...
Runaway
...alone. I made it To Fairfield Street before the headlights of Daddy's pickup caught me In mid-blur. But I left my lover better: I knifed a tire before I went...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...is barely decipherable, his stories are full of crude reference to whores and excrement, and his disdain for his betters is clearly his main objective. In the opening conversation of...