Unquiet Emmett Till
...he was murdered look back at his death and the acquittal of his killers as a formative moment in their lives, from Anne Moody to Muhammad Ali, from Stokely Carmichael...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...long asked how enslaved migrants responded to, managed, and lived under the oppressions of antebellum bondage. In a careful excavation of black and white residents of antebellum Loudoun County, Virginia,...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...mountains of east Tennessee, Morristown explores the lived experiences of workers from Tennessee and Mexico who speak about their lives, work, disappointments, and hopes. These conversations are combined with scenes...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
Essay On a spring evening in 1911, a mob of about fifty white men in the small city of Livermore, Kentucky, lynched Will Potter on the stage of the local...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...the country and often differ markedly in character. Members concentrated their time and commitment on political causes rather than on jobs (much less careers), were downwardly mobile, lived communally, and...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...and the idea of recasting history for new audiences and times. He discusses how he drew from lived experience in Havana to craft Winter Escapes as well as how his...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...and imagination, Haley reconstructs the lives of African American women such as Eliza Cobb, who at the age of twenty-two was arrested and convicted for infanticide, a charge she vehemently...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...visitor, “in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital.” As an Atlantic proverb put it: “Those who want to die quickly, go to Carolina.” “Having lived in...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...from these mountains, your and my dreams and reality itself are engraved within this collective group consciousness forever. One can choose to repress, but sooner or later, the lives and...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...slogan “Long Live UNIA”—and a handwritten DNA sequence. Bailey had learned, in 2006, that markers in his DNA indicated a bloodline rooted in Sierra Leone and in Guinea. The shadowbox...