Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...1991), 25. McGraw (personal communication; see also Miller, Traveling Home, 52) offers the five most important elements of a Sacred Harp singing: (1) sitting in a hollow square, (2) rotation...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...and relentless as the muddy river itself. Divided into eight chapters, Choctaw Resurgence offers a careful reconstruction of Choctaw agency. Osburn writes often about Choctaw strategies that were employed or...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...earned their subsistence until evicted from here. This sweep of black history at Arlington from 1802 to 1900 even offers surprises: a sister-in-law of Robert E. Lee was a freed...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...natural and modified landscapes at the expense of blacks' economic interests. Here, Kahrl offers a wide-ranging critique of the white supremacist and predatory foundations of coastal capitalism, as expressed in...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...so popular."55http://www.chathamlegacy.com/newhome/overlook/index.asp (accessed June 10, 2008). King Estates Manor, as of June 10, 2008, offers homes on one-plus acres priced at $1,599,000 (5 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms) and $3.4 million (6...
Religion and the US South
...campaigns across the ideological spectrum. It supports a needed infrastructure of social services and educational institutions in southern regions where public agencies are underfunded. It offers a still compelling worldview...
Regions of Alabama
Video Part 2: Dr. Flynt offers an historical-geographical perspective on Alabama's economy from the antebellum era through 20th century Part 3: Dr. Flynt discusses the importance of a sense...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...the economies, populations, and cultural practices of southern states have “gone global”— from foreign direct investment to NASCAR to flexible labor—the framework that southern history offers for understanding the present...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...appliquéd fabrics. 16"x11.75"(closed), 16"x11.75"x23" (open). Collection of the Gwendolyn Ann Magee Estate, D. E. Magee, administrator. Deep Into the Woods, one of Magee's later works, offers a purely sculptural means...