The Colonialist's Gaze
...suggested that in the on-going process of "Americanization" it might be better if the unfit inhabitants simply "died off." "Plan of Isabela," illustrated town map from Armstrong's notebooks. Image...
Making History
All I know of the Spanish-American War is what Virginia boys, kept safe at college, etched into the mortar with their pencils so that leaning against a brick wall a...
Central America Protest, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 25, 1984
...Both CASC and SDCA distributed leaflets and information to people leaving church services about their respective views on American involvement in Central America. Courtesy of Duke University Archives, Durham, North Carolina....
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...a deliberately disruptive way." Interestingly, Gray uses this description of the genre in a book called Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism (2000) and...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...Library on American Slavery, a database of nearly 3,000 legislative petitions, 14,500 county court petitions, as well as personal documents like wills and bills of sale. Professor Thomas Costa at...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...(2019): 21–37, https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2018.1468745; and Tara L. Parker and Kathleen M. Neville, "The Influence of Racial Identity on White Students' Perceptions of African American Faculty," The Review of Higher Education 42,...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket: Video and Essay Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket. A short video by Ben Harmon and Catalina McCormick, 2009. Individuals' experiences in the criminal...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...PhD in American Studies at Emory University in 2008 and now serves as the Educational Analyst for Video within Emory's Academic Technologies division. He has worked as a documentary filmmaker...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...