"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...square has been a longstanding focus, with advances in recording technology leading to new strategies. In this publication we introduce new immersive 360-degree video and audio recordings we made from...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Times, published in New York, January 17, 1857: Richard Ten Broeck, in Baily’s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, 1864. I knew that a Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar (1824–1865), a former...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
Essay Canal Street, Separating the Old from the New City, from the WPA Guide to New Orleans. Reminders of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal are hard to miss in many American...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...Turn-of-the Century Chicago (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1998), 138. Filled with newfangled rides and novel attractions, these parks drew an assortment of patrons searching for new ways to...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...ratings.10For a discussion of family life in the 1950s, see Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (New York: Basic Books, 1988); and Stephanie Koontz,...
Encountering COVID
...all by myself. Then out of the blue came the idea of Humans of New York. And I thought, "Oh, Brandon Stanton interviewed thousands of people in New York, took...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...new forms. We wanted to advance scholarship that used digital media as essential components. We also wanted to differentiate the purpose of this new publication from "Southern Studies" in general,...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...taken up by some of John C. Calhoun's minions in South Carolina."47"More Nullification," New York Tribune, reprinted in Brooklyn (NY) Eagle, July 31, 1849. Newspaper clipping. Originally published in The...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...Yeller (New York: Harper & Bros., 1956). Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows (New York: Laurel-Leaf Books, 1961). William Armstrong, Sounder (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1969). It wasn't...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
Review In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, clubs in Houston, Dallas, and many other centers of New Orleanian displacement hosted "New Orleans" nights, featuring rap music from the Crescent City....