Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...sing to heal the language of its long service as a tool. Greatest of the fingerpickers, lost in dark mud, I do not know about the god of the fathers,...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...that followed the deaths of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. On July 7, 2009, twelve days after Jackson's death, millions of fans watched the homegoing service of the "King of...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...a Middle Passage port on the Rappahannock River.2Further study by a National Park Service historian reviewing data from the New York Historical Society provided more detail to support this "new"...
History: The Parlor
...unspecified bric-a-brac. In contrast, the furniture in the sitting room included, among other items, a walnut writing table, two bookcases with glass doors, one lot of about a hundred books...
Visualizing Spatial History: The Example of Rio de Janeiro
Presentation Part 2: Frank provides an overview of the Stanford Spatial History Project Part 3: Frank discusses creating visualizations that evoke patterns and varieties of spatial mobility, consciousness, and power...
Little Creek, North Carolina
...1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT writing on barn floor slating it for destruction, Little Creek, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Herbalists and horticulture club members walking...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...glitter, the universe whose stars, you said, are writing of the destiny of those within the hand of fate. Tonight, the haunt the ridge where Vulcan's gauntlets hold no torch,...
Seneca Quarry
...Smithsonian." I've been researching and writing a broad history of Seneca quarry over the past year, a book called The Smithsonian Castle and The Seneca Quarry, which the History Press will...
Consolation
...writing this poem by a pen-light and waiting for Livingston to come with his gun and pull us out and take us back to the idling car, if we could...