Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
Same-Sex Intimacy in the Fiction of Southern Plantations Part 2: Bibler refers to Gaines’s novel Of Love and Dust, focusing on how same-sex relations can disrupt plantation hierarchies Part 3:...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...the community as well." Though many students are unaware of the building's history, efforts like the TalkAboutFoster blog indicate an ongoing interest in the site and hopes for future restoration...
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...creatively and effectively introduces an expanded, more nuanced visual chronicle of the civil rights struggle. An image like Matt Herron's, "Fire Bomb Watch, Mileston, Mississippi, June 1, 1964" stands in...
Bricking the Church
...gullies. The little churchhouse now looks more like a post office or school. It's hard to find among the brown winter slopes or plowed fields of spring. Brick was prestigious...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...in Congress during the last decades of the twentieth century. Home to a highly educated black middle class rooted in institutions like Howard University, DC experienced a similar urban crisis...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...church groups, and individuals—to get a feeling of their relationship with the Parkway. But those stories, especially from the early years, likely don't exist except in people's living rooms. A...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...personal and historical connections, such as the chinaberry tree (Melia azedarach), which was a prominent feature in his childhood yard and also was, as he liked to point out, one...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...into town and go shopping. Even without a pass, many Japanese Americans sneaked out to go fishing or to take a walk in the woods. But unlike the shoppers and...