Quilting Conversation
...specializing in the art of the United States, with an emphasis on the interwar period. Marquetta Johnson is a self-taught artist and fourth-generation quilter, known for using innovative hand-dyeing techniques....
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...1849. Vague and clumsy references to letters in code and cyphers in his correspondence directed to Barrett made his situation look damning. One newspaper from North Carolina noted that if it...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...the summer of 1938. By taking to the road, Daniels was following the lead of a number of writers who set out to see the United States in the midst...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...inequality. This ideology allows white residents to celebrate progressiveness while failing to promote meaningful inclusion. Creekridge Park Demographics. Map by George Mayorga. From Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...assisting mostly middle-class families but their analysis lumps together zip codes with median household incomes with those more than twice the state median. In Florida, Step Up for Students expanded...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...The shape of Juan Logan and Susan Harbage Page's installation mirrors that of the gallery in order to comment on how culture — rituals, codes, manners, and customs — is...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...repositories of Africana art, as places of historical significance in their own right, and as places and resources for Africana art making and creativity. Africana archives in the United States...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...point of entry into the deep archive Lomax deposited at the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress and a first real step in understanding the material...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...a scene from Louisiana Story, Weeks Island, Louisiana, c. 1947. Courtesy of Standard Oil (New Jersey) Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville. For the United States growing into its role...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...supported the placement of Native children into "white" households throughout the existing United States. By the first decades of the nineteenth century, a small group of American Indians in the...