Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Relations Council of Minnesota Papers, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul; The Present-Day Ku Klux Klan Movement, Report by the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 90th Cong. Ist Sess.,...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...challenges—from proliferating slave insurgencies to vocal liberal-abolitionist mobilization. But along industrial plantations' margins, vast and socially vibrant free rural communities of African descent made homes for themselves against many odds....
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...me that sometimes the stuff that makes you the most angry is the stuff that fuels your strongest work. Elvira Pulitano: Upon receiving the invitation to attend the gathering at...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
..."The Mercy," "Six Yellow Stanzas," "Georgia Postcard," "The Dirt Eaters," and "Ars Poetica #100: I Believe." About Elizabeth Alexander Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher born in...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...less explain, the excitement generated by the film. It became a combination eucharist and shibboleth, and Rolling Stone loved it. It is still widely praised and fondly remembered by many...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Montgomery to Birmingham; from Birmingham to Atlanta; from Atlanta down the west coast of Florida to Key West and up the east coast of Florida to Savannah and then home...
Religion and the US South
...justify slavery, as part of their defense against abolitionist criticism. One strain of the proslavery argument saw southern society as the last bulwark against an inhumane industrial order that had...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...credits of the broadcast would often indicate the source, and in some cases, the name of the producer. In most instances it proved impossible to track down a broadcast-quality master....
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...star are among the most recognizable of the chemical dyes that became widely available during the 1870s. It is quite likely that Rosa Snoddy pieced the star, but she would...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Freedmantown. Studio D, which Frank Campagna had opened in his art studio around 1982 pretty far east on Main Street (just before the old Deep Ellum neighborhood reached Fair Park),...