St. Catherines Island Flyover
...March 2015 drone footage, documentary videographer Steve Bransford edited the short video presented here. It begins by orienting viewers to the location of St. Catherines, and then travels smoothly across...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...version of "Louis Collins." Likewise, the image of a "rubber-tired buggy, decorated horse" appears frequently in similar songs, such as "Frankie and Albert" and Blind Willie McTell's "Delia": Rubber-tired buggy,...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...to the family. By some estimates, there are about fifteen hundred Bunker descendants today, spread throughout the world, although most of them have stayed close to their ancestral haunt in...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...the industry and the communities that depended on it. In addition to these still photographs, the Florida Photographic Collection contains 50 video clips, including Flower of Tampa, a video financed...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
..."bellies of the world," functioning at once as expelling guts and sheltering womb. See my Orphan Narratives for a discussion of Glissant's ambivalent bellies of the world: Valérie Loichot, Orphan...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Rutgers University Press, 2011), 11. Black civilian on horseback, The Battle of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Cyclorama painting by the American Panorama Company, photographed by Michael Page. The only Black...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Television and the Gendering of Rock Discourse," in Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones, eds. Roger Beebe and Jason Middleton (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), 226–251; Coates,...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...202. When news of the change in Confederate command reached Federal General William T. Sherman, he asked Schofield, Hood's classmate at West Point, about Hood. Schofield replied that Hood was...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Banner, August 17, 1832, p. 3. Athens Historic Newspapers Archive, Digital Library of Georgia. The drums turned from late October 1832 through April 1833. Publications broadcast the names, counties, and lot...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...different worldviews, equal benefits in this crisscross movement. Calypso Magnolia then follows the seismic shift of the Haitian Revolution in subsequent literature. Lowe centralizes the work of Floridians Zora Neale...