Elegy for the Native Guards
...intone. Only the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Map National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map Cover Image...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...by HarperCollins in 2021. Cover Image Attribution Horton Mill Covered Bridge Over Black Warrior River, February 7, 2021. Photograph by Flickr user Jimmy Emerson, DVM. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...controversies over the Confederate battle flag and antebellum history that increasingly divide white and black Southerners?" Attention to such contrasts was hardly unique. Throughout the two-week media blitz, the Games...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...to copy the company's racially inflammatory anti-union letter is mostly faithful to Sutton's biography and official records. The sexually-charged argument between Norma and Reuben, however, was fabricated to demonstrate the...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...94)—initially set it apart from Anglo-American balladry, suggesting that it was less likely to be based on real events and less likely to be diegetically unified, more recent investigation into...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...only as Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956, shows two nicely dressed women, hair neatly tucked into white hats, casually chatting through an open window, while the woman inside discreetly nurses...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...ironically step back and assume this scholarly distance from the ways that places get culturally and socially constructed but to have our scholarship actually and intentionally engage in that process,...
Birth Right
...were allowed to practice without legal interference) in fifteen states, and explicitly illegal in only eleven states, including Alabama.1For more information, visit: http://mana.org/about-midwives/state-by-state. Neeta Kirpalani and Emily Jackson, Still image from...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Milt Grant Show, Baltimore's Buddy Deane Show, the inspiration for John Waters's Hairspray film and the later Broadway musical and Hollywood film, was officially segregated and only allowed black teens to enter...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
..."embarrasses me highly." Eventually, she grew more trusting of these two filmmaking veterans, relaxed and told her story. But Braden never relinquished control of her narrative. As Anne Lewis put...