"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...a Decatur, Georgia, all-day singing, we recorded three hours of the annual singing at Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church in rural Fayette County in west Alabama. This lively, midsize singing is...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...mother Matilda Teney. The 1800 census indicates that the household of Charles Teney in the District of Columbia consisted of fourteen free persons, all of them non-white, and one enslaved. Charles...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...that in the early twenty-first century we are calling the Global South. Industrial Waves, 1780–2008 Figure 1. Ratio of Employment in Manufacturing to Agriculture 1800–2000. Copyright: Peter Evans and Sarah...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...Antebellum South (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012). These attitudes continue to plague current approaches to health care, so that many African Americans live every day in the wake of racism...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Sell: Live the Good Life in Mississippi (Morton, MS: Jack N. Stuart, 1975), accessed at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History; "New, Current Industries Honored at Program," Scott County...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...Southeast from the Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw Nations became particularly interested in sending their children—especially their sons—to live in slaveholding households in the US South. US slaveholders proved more than eager to...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...the continued success of the barn dance made live local country variety shows an ideal early programming format. By the mid-1950s, though, with the emergent competition from television and the...
The Shenandoah Valley
...that crows flying over it for the balance of the season will have to carry their provender with them." Sheridan's troops burned large swaths through the Valley, drove off livestock,...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Evangelicals and fundamentalists have never agreed on how best to live out the scriptural directive that Christians be in the world, but not of it. In the final decades of...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...and unraveled public policy, individual lives and places were forever changed. As part of the emerging narrative, the story of Fort Hetzel in Ellijay serves as a microcosm of the...