"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...on television.36Delery-Edwards, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson, 50 (ellipses original); See also Townsend, Let the Faggots Burn, 184–185. Shortly after the Sunday evening Beer Bust on Sunday, June 24, 1973,...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...provision of better educational opportunities for their children, the adoption of up-to-date styles of architecture, the installation of indoor plumbing, and the purchase of automobiles, pianos, and other amenities. In...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Weekly 25, no. 1275 (June 4, 1881). Decoration Day, later known as Memorial Day, originated in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War as an annual observance in which each...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...Have linguistic differences become a proxy for articulating perceived racial distinctions? Are we witnessing the social construction of a distinct "Hispanic race," internalized by residents and articulated in everyday speech?...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...even know that people elsewhere all over the country was suffering from want." —Donald Harington’s “Vance Randolph” character in Butterfly Weed1Donald Harington, Butterfly Weed (New Milford, CT: The Toby Press,...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...from 2000 to 2005. He is the author of Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (2010) and Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
Review Willie Birch, Martin Luther King Day Parade, 2003. Acrylic and charcoal on paper, 72 x 96 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Arthur Roger Gallery. In Roll With It:...
Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean Perspective
Presentation About the Speaker James W. Porter is the Meigs Distinguished Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia and a faculty member in School of Marine Programs, Water Resources and Conservation Ecology. Porter has...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...fried the day before yesterday, old bread and a slice of musty pie," whereas "the white passengers in the lunch room may get a hot drink or a fried egg...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...a public health series covering the pandemic: https://southernspaces.org/2022/covid-19-lessons-ignorance/. Far too much had to be cobbled together on the fly in early 2020 largely because of prior organizational neglect. And far...