Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...the Atlanta painting, and promoters moved each canvas from city to city for exhibition. At every stop, riggers installed the panorama in a massive rotunda building, a specially designed structure...
Encountering COVID
...were struggling. For instance, I talked with Emma, a director of a migrant farmworker nonprofit. She told me about how really nobody cared to protect migrant farmworkers and about one...
"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...
Announcing: Trouble the Land: A Personal History of the Civil Rights Movement in Five Southern Cities
...Installments Launching Spring 2026 “Prelude to the Atlanta Movement” traces the beginnings of the civil rights movement in Atlanta. With an emphasis on the 1940s and 1950s, topics covered include...
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
...large nigger. She instantly screamed as a result of her fright. When she did so the nigger struck her in the center of the forehead with something in his hand...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...and rehung at a higher placement to stave off would-be vandals and thieves. When the city installed a second tribute to Vesey—a life-like statue erected in a municipal garden in...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...the multiple ways that information was gathered, interpreted, and networked in the early South" (96). In most instances of cross-cultural communication, the who mattered just as much (if not more)...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...among black women that they had no claims to femininity that would legitimize assertions of rape" (104). Although prison records provide numerous instances of African American women giving birth to...