Topeka newspapers
Topeka State Journal, December 5, 1906, "Texans had 'Fun.'" TEXANS HAD 'FUN' Tried to Lynch Negro on Santa Fe Train No. 17 Cowboys Put Rope Around His Neck Three...
Remembering Documentary Filmmaker George Stoney
Documentary filmmaker George Stoney, 96, died this week. His films include The Uprising of '34 (1995), about a large and violent strike in the southern textile industry in 1934, and...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
Review Willie Birch, Martin Luther King Day Parade, 2003. Acrylic and charcoal on paper, 72 x 96 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Arthur Roger Gallery. In Roll With It:...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...later map. Joseph Hutchins Colton, "North Carolina," 1855. From Colton, G. W., Colton's Atlas of the World Illustrating Physical and Political Geography, vol. 1 (New York, 1855). Via Wikimedia Commons....
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Troutman, Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012); Barry Mazor, Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...within the ordinary and allow the film to take us unexpected places. About the Author Daniel Pecchenino is a lecturer in the writing program at the University of Southern California....
The Morning with Many Tongues
Readings Sean Hill reads the poem "Just as Sure." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "Nigger Street 1937." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "The State House Aflame 1833." Poem text....
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...Musical Journey (New York: Amistad, 2003), 161. Wenders wanted the old footage to be "the backbone of the second half of [the] film," revealing more than any contemporary interview.2Ibid. Steve...