The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...relationship to other shape-note tunebooks, and the economics and technology of early publishing. Steel presents early composers in The Sacred Harp not as rustic daguerreotypes but as representatives of “a...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...in Washington, DC, Mildred and Richard decide, in violation of state law, to move back to Virginia with their three young children. They find a farmhouse. It has no telephone...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...of which appear on early postcards from the city. As St. Petersburg boomed through the twentieth century, during the early years of car culture, these shell mounds were looted for...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...building under Brown's supervision during his absences from Washington. Yet, Brown, whose parents were free residents of Washington City, was clearly apprehensive of local slave merchants, who often kidnapped free...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...St. Augustine, Florida, stands the "old slave market," an open-air pavilion where enslaved Africans were bought and sold (Figures 1–3). Since its construction in the early nineteenth century, the waterfront...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...tourism, the "Wonderful Discovery" pamphlet offsets the heroism of white exploration with the ignorance of the bumbling slave. Upon realizing that all three white men nearly slipped to a certain...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...of straight ticket votes are by Democrats), shorten the early voting calendar, (Democratic voters are thirty percent more likely to vote early than Republicans), ban same-day registration during early voting,...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...that although lit had failed to detonate. Four months later, on February 11, 1958, unidentified assailants planted thirty sticks of dynamite outside Temple Emanuel in the neighboring city of Gastonia....
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...processional geographies of connected places. The book's cover presents an image of such geographies: the early-1700s Chickasaw map of friends and enemies denoted by a series of separate but linked...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...even though they clearly pointed to high PCB levels among the poor and working-class families living near the plant. Monsanto Chemical Company, Anniston, Alabama, 1940. Postcard by EC Kropp Company....