Bringing these bricks into my last lecture with Antebellum America. For weeks I’ve walked by and watched Facilities complete this bench. Only today I learned (thanks Hilary Green) that this sitting area pays homage to UA Presidents. I learned the bricks came from Bryce Hospital. The Facilities folks told me that weeks ago. Enslaved artisans… Continue reading brick house
Please visit Gorgas House Museum’s Facebook page today to learn more about my “Antebellum America” students’ burlap pop up art installation, which was part of the 2022 international Slow Art Day . Special thanks again to Rebecca Johnson, University of Alabama Communications Specialist, and Brandon Thompson, Director, Gorgas House Museum, for their support. Dr. John… Continue reading see Slow Art Day video beautifully created by UA’s Gorgas House Museum
Rest in peace to my esteemed and cherished senior colleague Howard Jones. You always offered me genuine friendship and collegiality. We assisted each other with our respective projects. Thank you for always being there. The History Department here has lost a wonderful one. One of our last exchanges concerned a U.S. soldier writing his love… Continue reading rest in peace, Howard Jones
My cup runneth over. Energized by a talk titled “Are Our Raisins Still in the Sun?” The title was created by my line sister Veronica Jackson, orchestra teacher at Alexandria City High School. I met amazing students and our Sorors from the Zeta Chi Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated. Answer: No, our… Continue reading no dried raisins
I’ll be speaking live 10 am tomorrow about using local histories and other matters related to my teaching, service and research with UA Museums tomorrow. Web link on flyer.
As I prep for “Music and Race in the UK,” a course I am scheduled to teach next summer in our Alabama at Oxford program, I have gone back and forth on whether to use Muscle Shoals in the course. After showing the documentary on the incredible music coming out of Alabama in the late… Continue reading muscle shoals
Me to a Grad Student: I’m so geeked. Even tho’ I can see some of the stuff online, I can’t wait to touch some archival papers at the University of Florida’s Smathers Libraries again. GS in so many words: I hear you, Dr. Green. I have held in my hand the thinnest folder containing a… Continue reading joy of the archive
I enjoyed seeing Harriet, the 2019 motion picture directed by Kasi Lemmons last night. While I hear the chatter over how much was fictionalized, it was still very entertaining and moreover, I left the theatre feeling very empowered. I saw the film courtesy of tickets purchased by my UA colleague Lesley Gordon, Director of our… Continue reading harriet
You know it’s getting getting getting kinda hectic (Snap/The Power for us old skul types) when you are prepping for a new course called “Race and Music in the UK”, your first for your university’s Alabama at Oxford study abroad program, and a pile of books to be considered keeps getting taller and taller. How… Continue reading music and race in the uk
I just made this image my desktop screensaver. It is a still from Julie Dash’s 1991 film Daughters of the Dust, which chronicles the experiences of a Gullah family who live on a “sea island” off the coast of Georgia. Most of them are preparing to move inland to cities to enhance, in their best… Continue reading survive
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