Antietam
...but that's a lie. Sometimes, at night, I feel the battlefield moving inside of me. Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September...
Another Failed Poem About the Greeks
...Greek, of course, and dead, and somewhere a maiden rattled in her chains. Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 ©...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...drawn by eight mules, a beautiful dwarf who leapt a rail to gulp down a crushed-out cigarette. In the New York Public Library, on a nineteenth-century surveyor's plat, The two...
Stones and Shadows
...you like to live in New York City?" I search for ways to interrupt, to shut him up. But when I look left, he has become just a voice in...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research explores the...
Crespino's Strom Thurmond: The Last Jim Crow Demagogue and the First Sunbelt Conservative
In this short interview, historian Joseph Crespino discusses his new book, Strom Thurmond's America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of South Carolina politician Strom Thurmond. Crespino explains how...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...(New York: Johnson and Ward, 1863). These workers lived precarious lives—black workers more precarious than white, female more than male, old more than young. Workers' families spun "webs of dependency"...
Steeplechase postcards
Coney Island's Steeplechase, the longest-running park on New York's Coney Island, was the namesake for parks in Connecticut and New Jersey. Postcard from Coney Island, Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, NY,...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
Introduction Artists Susan Harbage Page and Juan Logan designed Prop Master: An Installation specifically for the Main Gallery of the Gibbes Museum of Art. In its totality, Prop Master constitutes...
Mapping Souths
...and Slavery in the American Slaves States (1861; New York: Modern Library, 1984), 3. Decoding Trescot's South as (mere) battle slogan, Marx silently generates a battle slogan of his own:...