Oral History - AAIHS

Death and Memory From Mississippi to Chicago

My grandfather died on Christmas Eve. I never knew him, but his legend still hangs over me. Even though I’m named

I spent my Sundays in November photographing in Clarksville—a neighborhood in Austin, Texas, which was founded by freedpeople after the

I recently returned from a storytelling school in a small coastal town on the North Channel of Northern Ireland. I

It was the summer of 1986 in Chicago, and my eleven-year-old self was engaged in an intense debate with my

An eerie calm has settled over the 57-acre lot where the Pruitt-Igoe Homes once loomed over St. Louis, Missouri. Today,