"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...of the installations, something akin but not limited to the post-minimalist school of sculptural thought. I don’t have a concrete or specific school of thought surrounding what I do in...
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...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...efforts to trace the counter-narrative's lineage. Celebration of Emancipation Day, Charleston, South Carolina, January 8, 1877. Sketch by Harry Ogden. Originally published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, February 3, 1877....
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 3.0. And in the final section—"How"—Dubcovsky examines the Yamasee War to articulate how communication networks operated (and didn't). As the war progressed,...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Georgia's prisons, Georgia, November 3, 1940. Copyright Atlanta-Journal Constitution. Courtesy of Georgia State University Library, Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives, digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/611/rec/53. Turning to the brutality...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...invariably smaller and less attractive (152). In rare instances, states continued to operate formerly "colored only" parks under their original names and acknowledge in brochures and displays the park's racialized...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...US social currents. For instance, Wuthnow writes that "[a]lthough it is true that much about Texas is distinctive to its own location and history, Texas also serves valuably as a...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...and instability about schooling" and proved "extremely controversial" especially among the county's newest residents, who were least familiar with the district's diversity policy and who would also be called upon...