Boarded-up homes in abandoned mining town, Twin Branch, West Virginia, 1938
This photograph from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black and White Negatives collection, taken in September 1938 by Marion Post Wolcott, carried the following caption: "Boarded-up...
St. Thomas Church Supper near Bardstown, Kentucky, August 7, 1940
...workers are called "parishoners" and the black workers are unidentified, it appears that the second image likely fits into expected paradigms of race and labor. The photograph of lamb and...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...dominance more evident than at the highest levels of the nation's foreign policy and military apparatus. Karp goes beyond the numerical majority of men like John C. Calhoun, James K....
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...the earth and cut divots in the grass with their heels and rattled my existence. To me, their appearance was alchemy. Like rolling thunder shaped into flesh and bone. Fulfilling...
Bridge reconstruction, Marshall, North Carolina, 2006
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...attracted tourists the physical (visible) space seemed less complicated. These were places consciously designed to appeal to people unfamiliar with the city. Accumulated layers of the past seemed stripped away...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...Creek, NC, 1994. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Howard and Lucille Babbitt in their apple orchard at Sprinkle Creek, which was removed for I-26, covered with 200 feet of fill...
Roadside Architecture
...the buildings' outward appearance, and I find beauty in that—an almost Emersonian correspondence of principle and form. I showed many of these photographs to a curator a year or two...