Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Mary-Grant, "Constructing a Commemorative Culture: American Veterans and Memorialization from Valley Forge to Vietnam," Journal of War and Culture Studies 4, no. 3 (2011): 305–322. The Atlanta panorama and The...
Encountering COVID
...were struggling. For instance, I talked with Emma, a director of a migrant farmworker nonprofit. She told me about how really nobody cared to protect migrant farmworkers and about one...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...the box represents both time and the Atlantic expanse, through which and across which Bailey reaches. Radcliffe Bailey, Uprooted, 2002. Mixed media on wood panel, 60-1/4 x 238-1/4 x 3-5/8...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...an imported contagion, claiming, for instance, "that white Texas drovers imported racist violence into the state's cattle towns" (34). White Kansans often asserted that "racist violence would always be foreign—no...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...that Appalachian studies isn't interdisciplinary enough? For instance, urban planners, demographers, and ethnographers (among others) are needed to understand urban Appalachia, immigration, housing, and employment. To be fully interdisciplinary, Appalachian...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...to feminism to lesbian/gay/bisexual rights. For instance, Evans points out that white southern Protestantism provided a space for a radical critique of segregation in the 1950s and that in her...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...in which, for instance, universities are truly functioning as corporations. Universities are hiring fewer and fewer tenured professors, and, like corporations everywhere, are cutting their benefits obligations by hiring temporary...
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
...However, This Is Not Dixie and He Will Probably Be Left for the Law to Handle Sunday morning at the hour of about 3:20 Mrs. Johnson Lusk whose husband...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...but as an effort for white people to avoid being overwhelmed by an ever-increasing, and potentially hostile, black population.1The African Repository, and Colonial Journal 3 (February 1828): 356–60. His belief...