Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...the oral history interviews for the book? Themes of spirituality, sexual fluidity, nomenclature, and queerness (9:08). Part Four Johnson acknowledges several women in his oral history project who have helped...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...connects the open ocean with areas behind the beach, allowing tidal waters to move in and out. Cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) – Grass species that dominates lower parts of Georgia coastal...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...General William T. Sherman, General Ulysses S. Grant, and Admiral David Dixon Porter (left to right) on board the River Queen docked at City Point, Virginia, on March 28, 1865....
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...or too infirm to labor. By January 1864, dwellings had been constructed along with a church, hospital, and home for the aged—all aligned on well laid-out streets with a park...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...tourism we witness white imaginations marshalling the language of gothic storytelling—psychological terror, philosophical darkness, moral ambiguity—while evading its racial and political implications. Such works often focus on the theatrical nature...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...farmers, businessmen, and the nascent automobile industry) accelerated nationwide after 1910 when affordable automobiles vastly expanded the potential for an upgraded road network to present a viable alternative for long-distance...
Zircon
...of fifteen books of poetry, most recently Dark Energy (Penguin, 2015). He has also published nine volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek (1999), a New York Times bestseller. A sequel to Gap Creek,...
WWI memorial footbridge over Big Elkin Creek, Elkin, North Carolina, 2004
Signs, Near Bear Creek, North Carolina, 2007
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Regional History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001), 4. For all its sensitivity to spatial and temporal variation, the literature on white-on-black violence has emphasized the American South. Although whites brutalized African...