Letter: Blues
Those Great Lake Winds Blow all around: I'm a light-coat man In a heavy-coat town. — Waring Cuney Yellow freesia arc like twining arms; I'm buying shower curtains, smoke alarms,...
Quilting Conversation
Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb show the breadth of anti-Mexican violence in the US West between 1848 and 1928, Villanueva details what this meant for targeted individuals.1William D. Carrigan...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
Review Sensory history is an exciting new approach to writing history. It offers a fresh take on past perceptions. Sensing between the lines of written sources, the sensory historian recasts...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...civil rights. Locations of state parks in the South highlighting facilities made available to African Americans between 1937 and 1962. Map by William O’Brien. Originally published in William O’Brien’s Landscapes...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...key barrier to its implementation has been removed. Virginia's pending voter ID law now is also free of preclearance requirements and will likely be implemented as well. Mississippi's voter ID law—put...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...New Orleans for his vegetarian wife (who loves it there!), housed FEMA workers for free in October 2005, lives Uptown, and considers himself well versed in history. 12ward's hostility312ward's language...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...in effective copyright protection, fair contracts and free expression." The Authors Guild's suit alleged that the massive digitization and preservation effort undertaken by the HathiTrust and its affiliates represented a...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...includes 1,600 color photographs taken between 1939 and 1944. Many of the images depict rural farming practices, social life in towns, factories and their environmental effects, and aspects of World...
The Bulletin—June 19, 2013
...will double the size of the collections and will provide increased access to HathiTrust's nearly eleven million volumes. In addition, HathiTrust metadata records will be freely available under a Creative Commons license....