Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...originally from Chauvin, Louisiana, lives outside Atlanta with her wife and two daughters. She works as a User Experience Researcher in social media and holds a PhD in American Studies...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...Atlanta and Houston, the sound of rap and bounce here is distinct, as evidenced by a strong emphasis on intensely repetitive rhythmic and lyrical sequences, characteristic dances, localized lyrical themes,...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
...“Theories of Time and Space,” as well as music and/as poetry Part 6: Trethewey discusses Atlanta as retreat and homecoming as well as Decatur and place’s possession of memory Part 7: Trethewey...
The Carolina Piedmont
...of the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway offered a direct route from New York to New Orleans and further shifted the region's orientation away from the Carolina coast. Cotton agriculture,...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...an article on narratives of the Atlanta child murders (in PMLA), a piece on Black Hawk (in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance), essays on the intersections of Native...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Peter Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville" Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
Review Untitled (Near Minter City and Glendora, Mississippi), 1970, printed 1999. Photograph and dye-transfer print by William Eggleston. From At War with the Obvious, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession #2012.286....
Besieged Terrain
...the mountains. The Blue Ridge extends from Mount Oglethorpe, thirty-five miles north of Atlanta, through North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, ending at Pennsylvania's South Mountain. West of the Blue Ridge...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...heard her read her poetry in the late 1970s in the conference rooms of an Atlanta hotel where we were among those laying the groundwork for the first Women's Studies...