A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...that took place on Civil War battlefields to something like Pac-Man. On the other hand, in "The Face of Battle" exhibit, visitors can walk into a 360 degree virtual battlefield,...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Artists Golden Bailey Top, Golden Bailey, Geneva, Georgia, 1976. Photograph by George Mitchell. Bottom, Cecil Barfield, Bronwood, Georgia, ca. 1980s. Photograph by unknown creator [likely Margo Rosenbaum]. © George Mitchell....
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...to running away, and a humming informal economy. Based on these accounts, scholars made two broad claims. First, a universal solidarity defined the slave community. George P. Rawick, who edited...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...States is the marimba and its music. In Guatemala, the marimba is a key symbol of indigenous identity and it continues to play an important role in community life for...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...put the family’s house and land up as part of his bail bond. Ree’s determination to find her father, dead or alive, enrages some of the meanest members of the...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
Essay And what erudition. He can even read stone. Only he never figures out that the veins in the marble of Diocletian's baths are the burst blood vessels of slaves...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...recollected bridges across Bayou St. John had disappeared. Street signs were nonexistent or homemade Traffic signals dangled uselessly or had been swept from tangled utility wires. The potholed streets were...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...saying that civilization itself was a bad thing. That would never do, because whites grounded their claims to racial dominance on the superiority of their civilization. For many southern doctors,...
The Place of Appalachia
...heartbreaking example. The controversy over MTR is in one sense a classic instance of "jobs versus environment." But it also illuminates additional elements of place-based struggles: the "place" that people...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...makes Franco's As I Lay Dying another installment in a series of unsatisfying films based on Faulkner's experimental fiction.2Faulkner himself worked in Hollywood on and off for over two decades,...