Searcy County Livestock Auction
...County Livestock Auction sat just south of Marshall, the county seat. Tony Bratton, a local farmer, opened the auction in 1947. Jack Simpkins bought it in 1955 and ran it...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...band music and ballad singing were white sounds, and musicians, whatever their race, moved between styles and genres depending on their skills and what their paying customers wanted to hear....
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...expansion, the region's largest landowners succeeded in persuading Congress to facilitate development on the alluvial floodplain with investments in flood control structures. Federal participation did not come easy, and representatives...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...put the family’s house and land up as part of his bail bond. Ree’s determination to find her father, dead or alive, enrages some of the meanest members of the...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...they tell a story central to Arlington and mirror an even larger story of black Americans who lived through the transitions from slavery to segregation. Here rest roughly 3,800 people...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...States. It lives in people, some of whom have no knowledge of its origins but cope with the ever-present longing and lack it causes."1"Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope," Georgetown...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...made, however, still stand in the Presbyterian churchyards of specific communities. Their dated stones memorialize particular people. Elsewhere the lives of these people and their neighbors are more fully recorded....
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...to city, they offered a popular commemorative formula—"two brands of the same valor"—that attracted an enormous number of spectators.68Nivison, "Fields of Mighty Memory," 292. Over 286,000 paying customers viewed the...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...patients, an elderly man ("Mr. S") who lived alone around the corner from us. My mother runs a home health and hospice department with the local hospital, and for as...