Fort Scott newspapers
...drunken desperado, who was and had been endangering the life of any one he came in contact with. When the testimony is given under oath in the preliminary examination, this...
The Boatloads
...the roll. But before he's halfway through, there's pushing at the back of the line and no relief in sight. In the end, Charon must abandon formality, must drop the...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...January 28, 1918, an armed group of Texas Rangers and Anglo ranchers entered El Porvenir, a community of approximately 140 ethnic Mexicans deep in the Big Bend. Accusing the inhabitants...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...bomb."2Quoted in: Hugh Gusterson, Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), 1. Of course, some love nuclear weapons more...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...successful Kickstarter campaign. Fiend at Inner Recess studio, New Orleans, Louisiana. Photograph by Holly Hobbs, 2014. Holly Hobbs at the Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2014. Photograph by Jason...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...in this context by Mardi Gras Indians, second lines, and social aid and pleasure clubs) comprise the theoretical center of New Orleans Suite, Watts and Porter also spend much time...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...budget of $4 million, eighteen percent of which comes from Duke University, with the remainder flowing from its $30 million endowment and additional grants. Managing additional fund-raising is a major...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...reading of Bartram ends with the crucial conclusion that botanical illustrations, and more generally, the practice of the naturalist, has implications of a political and legal nature, that Allewaert calls...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...this is its most enduring feature, devotion to the Virgin Mary who fought for Haitian independence, who inspired the toppling of dictators, and who maternally guided thousands of Haitian immigrants...
Editors
...Bellagio Study Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Her poems have appeared in such journals...