The State House Aflame 1833
...a negro man named Sam, the slave of Mr. Marlow, of this place. And the legislature will reward Sam's fast action, heedless of his own safety, by appropriating $1,600 for...
Consolation
...pockets like a charm we turn as we walk home again gleaming in the delicate light of the bright, unfalling stars. "Consolation" first appeared in Blackbird and was collected in...
Another Failed Poem About the Greeks
...catamite. When we ratcheted to a full stop he said Again. We went on the Scrambler, the Apple Turnover, the Log Flume. We went on the Pirate Ship three times,...
The Gospel Pool, Short Meter, 444t
Beside the gospel pool, Appointed for the poor, From time to time my helpless soul Has waited for a cure. The hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweets, Before...
Atchison newspaper
...there the matter will end for all time. 'It will not look right to eastern people if we do not condemn the lynching,' said one legislator yesterday,'but personally I approve...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...break. Her father has taken time off from his job and they have followed the Appalachian Mountains south, stopping first in Gatlinburg, then the Smokies, and finally this river. She...
Substantiation
...poor murdered's family, who's missing him, and the next day his father appears unknown for work, his name on the payroll, then gets to work at a machine no one's...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...appeal and enduring impact. Its influence, Kytle and Roberts write, extends north and west of the Mason-Dixon Line and strongly persists to the present, as evidenced by the intense racial...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...