"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...bar. When a "patron [and] MCC congregant" opened a door to descend the staircase, fire exploded in a backdraft through the stairwell, clawing into the bar.37Fieseler, Tinderbox, 71. In minutes,...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...a real battle."55Theodore R. Davis, "How a Great Battle Panorama is Made," St. Nicholas 14, no. 2 (1886): 99–112. The simulated, bird's-eye view of the Battle of Atlanta placed audiences...
Encountering COVID
...loss and heartbreak from COVID. Sometimes now, in the wake of the pandemic, it's possible to think it wasn't really that bad. Life goes on. But going back to the...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...an exhibition checklist, five essays, and a comprehensive bibliography of Bailey’s work, exhibitions, commentary, and reviews. Bailey’s works inhabit spaces both real and mythical—the church, the baseball diamond, the piano,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...U.S. I completely support the right of us LGBT people to have access to this basic democratic right, and to the thousands of very real material benefits attached to it,...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...the rustic name that the pattern had originated among early settlers on the frontier. For instance, a writer in 1935 stated flatly that "No Colonial home was complete without one...
Emporia newspapers
...large nigger. She instantly screamed as a result of her fright. When she did so the nigger struck her in the center of the forehead with something in his hand...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...Blassingame, ed., Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977), 467–68. For the best analysis of this instance, see Elizabeth Brown...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...in everyday life" (20).4For other studies of the Haitian Revolution's impact on the United States see Ashli White, Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic (Baltimore, MD:...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...in the city's Civil War history, and he has conducted over 150 tours of Battle of Atlanta sites. Pollock is the author of "The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance."...