The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...battle, followed by stops where the first fighting occurred, proceeding to the site where the clash was most intense, and concluding with the locations of the final and most famous...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
Review Cory Doctorow, Roped-up Satchmo statue, Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2010. Area closed off since contractors poured pavement with bad cement and damaged the statue. Just across Rampart...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...me that sometimes the stuff that makes you the most angry is the stuff that fuels your strongest work. Elvira Pulitano: Upon receiving the invitation to attend the gathering at...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
..."The Mercy," "Six Yellow Stanzas," "Georgia Postcard," "The Dirt Eaters," and "Ars Poetica #100: I Believe." About Elizabeth Alexander Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher born in...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...Author and artist Robert C. Adams" depicts a stockade surrounding one building and omits all other structures known to have been part of the post (guard house, storage houses, stables,...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...be featured. I convinced a friend to help me video most of the festival events. To interview Benny, we secured a room at a local bed-and-breakfast. I was not completely...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...on whether they lived east or west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Those still living in long settled counties in eastern Virginia, which had seen a steady flow of men...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...star are among the most recognizable of the chemical dyes that became widely available during the 1870s. It is quite likely that Rosa Snoddy pieced the star, but she would...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...9, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/was-the-art-of-s-town-worth-the-pain/522366/; Aja Romano, "S-Town is a stunning podcast. It probably shouldn't have been made," Vox, April 1, 2017, https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/30/15084224/s-town-review-controversial-podcast-privacy. Around the same time that plans for a movie...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...her death occurred. Sample prints from the first instance of The Children Don't Count in MARBL's Kennedy & Sons collection remembers Chicago children who died in 1992. The activist motivations...