Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...clutched my shoulder and screamed like a catamite. When we ratcheted to a full stop he said Again. We went on the Scrambler, the Apple Turnover, the Log Flume. We went...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...college town dominated by college football and beer-drinking Greeks create an avant-garde approach to rock and roll? “They’re freaked out, especially in the states, that bands with any measure of...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...has been pressing for a memorial to the Freedom Riders in Anniston for fifteen years. Since 1994, when Calhoun first approached the Anniston City Council about supporting a marker, she...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...appropriate, by external subject matter experts. View selected blog post examples below: Solomon, Eric. "Love and Death in Mississippi." Southern Spaces, August 16, 2018. https://southernspaces.org/2018/love-and-death-mississippi/. Suitts, Steve. "States' Rights Resurgent:...
Bodies and Souls
...healthcare. I learned about common barriers to receiving healthcare and the importance of intervention when looking at large-scale results. While my approach to social justice had once been ideological, now...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Collier Heights Historic District Application, NPS Form 10-900,OMB No. 1024-0018, received by NPS May 15, 2009, http://www.nps.gov/nr/publications/sample_nominations/CollierHeightsHD.pdf. Map of...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...quilt during this time. A distinctive imitation-cross-stitch fabric used to fill in between the points of the star to make a circle also appears in both Rosa's Log Cabin and...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...the printed fabrics in Rosa's Log Cabin also appear in Nannie's Cross quilt, which also relies on a light/dark contrast to show off its pattern. Mother and daughters seem to...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...today's Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—were central to early American knowledge production. At first glance the image appears to be a familiar allegory of Europe's conquest of the Americas. It...