September 2009
34 posts
Gainsbourg, la fille. →
Charlotte Gainsbourg remains scantily-known in the States. Her hair is an advertisement for listlessness, her nose clearly needs “work”, and she smokes in bed— not the sort of lady preferred by…
Constantin Virgil Banescu: The angel in the... →
The last time I spoke to Bobita, this past June, was pleasant. He agreed to answer questions for an interview to be published on this website. Things were going well. He preferred not to be called…
Constantin Virgil Banescu: The angel in the... →
The last time I spoke to Bobita, this past June, was pleasant. He agreed to answer questions for an interview to be published on this website. Things were going well. He preferred not to be called…
Byron Arnold: Folksongs and Field Recordings in... →
Music professor Byron Arnold traversed the state from 1945 to 1948, compiling one of Alabama’s most comprehensive folksong collections. His quest to capture the traditional folk music of Alabama…
These tortured times. →
Though I don’t always agree with Andrew Sullivan, his letter to Bush in the most recent issue of the Atlantic Monthly carries a moral force to be reckoned with. Andrew does not re-neg on his support…
Documents to view at the Hoole Special Collections... →
The truth is just a little dusty, but can be viewed by those who wish to pursue it.
Daniel Pinckney Christenberry commonplace book, 1883-1911, .4 linear feet
A list of citations, evidently…
First-hand account of 1833 Meteor Shower by Elder... →
I at once sold my little farm in the neighborhood of Antioch, and, having disposed of what stock and stuff I could not take with me, on the 13th of November, 1833, I was ready to start upon the…
Born free. →
Download George Edwin Starbuck BioDownload FlushTimesTranscriptDownload HarpersMagazine-1918-01-0031531Download Joseph Glover Baldwin and Trial HumorDownload Tuscaloosa Biography for Roland…
The birds-eye view. →
King Michael of Romania recalls the start of World War II in a recent interview with Radio Free. Christopher Hitchens expresses his intellectual condolences to Irving Kristol.The economists’ debate…
Russia's Nice: The perspective of Dimitri... →
In Bread of Exile, Byzantine scholar Dimitri Obolensky opens the book on his family’s royal Russian past. Sir Dimitri Obolensky was born Prince Dmitriy Dmitrievich Obolensky in 1918. His passing in…
Brookwood covered bridge in Tuscaloosa, a photo... →
The New Deal in Carbon Hill, Alabama. →
William C. Pryor’s photographic document, “A New Deal for Carbon Hill, Alabama”, provides a captivating glimpse into the New Deal’s effects on a small Alabama town. In Pryor’s description of Carbon…
Acuma: 25 things that make me smile about Romania... →
Andrei and his Harley looking for friends in Constanta. Somebody show him some Harley hospitality, please. Or just direct him to Red Bull Romaniacs… Razvan Vintilescu’s razor-sharp blog is just…
I couldn't resist. →
Ghita Ionescu's legacy to Romanian history. →
One of Ghita Ionescu’s most critical contributions to Romanian and post-communist studies was his emphasis on the academic study of “opposition” to political regimes. He founded a journal at LSE,…
Out of Harm's Way in Romania →
Out of Harm’s Way in Romania, originally uploaded by UNHCR. Peaceful days and a safe environment is probably more than these Palestinian and Sudanese refugees expected when they were stuck in a…
A short story by Stelian Tanase. →
Zgaiba died Wednesday at 17:26 – his head smashed in. A car travelling at speed killed him in the middle of the street. The sound of the blow kept ringing in Vivi’s brain. The driver never stopped….
A brief yet multifaceted survey of Alabama... →
That old Southern affinity for history never escapes the literary endeavors of its inhabitants. From the haunted characters of William Faulkner to the chivalric legacies of Samuel Minturn Peck,…
A poster from WWII by Victor Keppler. →
Something "goodly": A list of links + the American... →
Art HistoriesDavid Bate gives a two-page description of the Surrealists and their politics.David Evans does likewise for Guy Dubord and the Situationists.Literary Kicks, an online memoir in…
The German Robotron computer. →
The “Robotron” Kombinat [combine] was created in the GDR at the end of the 1960s. It was responsible for developing and manufacturing data-processing and office machines. Over the course of the…
T.R.M. Howard finds a home online. →
The fascinating civil rights activist TRM Howard now has a website, where his life and times can be more thoroughly explored. Among the features of this website, you can read an excerpt from the…
A historical image from the Maryland KKK. →
From the National Archives, this KKK poster makes the xenophobia explicit. Although the KKK was originally disbanded in 1869, it was reestablished in 1915. By the 1920s, it had four million…
Idealists Against Ideologues: A Case Study in the... →
via www.wilsoncenter.org The Romanian dissident movement in the 1970s and 1980s was both less well-known and markedly different from its counterparts in Czechoslovakia and Poland.Mihail Neamtu, a…
Paul Celan's literary love affair with Ingeborg... →
From Romania to Austria Celan’s parents were killed in the Holocaust; he escaped death by working in a Nazi labor camp. When he realized that the communists were going to take power in Romania,…
"Death of Europe", a poem by Nicolae Sirius. →
Hissing snakes withdrew into underground forests: Europe was a game A cross We carried in our scales. Some speculate That Europe is not dead It still trades And has recently raised The price of…
"Conversation with Jeanne", a poem by Czeslaw... →
Let us not talk philosophy, drop it, Jeanne. So many words, so much paper, who can stand it. I told you the truth about my distancing myself. I’ve stopped worrying about my misshapen life. It was no…
"Have Me" by Carl Sanburg. →
Have me in the blue and the sun.Have me on the open sea and the mountains.When I go into the grass of the sea floor, I will go alone.This is where I came from—the chlorine and the salt areblood and…
"My Faithful Mother Tongue", a poem by Czeslaw... →
Faithful mother tongue,I have been serving you.Every night, I used to set before you little bowls of colorsso you could have your birch, your cricket, your fmchas preserved in my memory.This lasted…
"Wonderland", a poem by William Hopper. →
Your dreams for our relationshipAre so grand I could neverStand in their way.Please,Write me now and againAnd let me know how we’re doing.
"The Country of Marriage", a poem by Wendell... →
I.I dream of you walking at night along the streamsof the country of my birth, warm blooms and the nightsongs of birds opening around you as you walk.You are holding in your body the dark seed of my…
"The Unknown Citizen" by W.H. Auden. →
(To JS/07/M/378/ This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State)He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to beOne against whom there was no official complaint,And all the reports on his conduct…
"How to speak poetry" by Leonard Cohen. →
Take the word butterfly. To use this word it is not necessary to make the voice weigh less than an ounce or equip it with small dusty wings. It is not necessary to invent a sunny day or a field of…
"Stages", a poem by Herman Hesse. →
As every flower fades and as all youthDeparts, so life at every stage,So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,Blooms in its day and may not last forever.Since life may summon us at every ageBe ready,…