An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...Chinese-American historian who was present at this reunion, the sudden appearance of an African American in their midst hit a nerve. While Ethridge was a welcome presence for most on...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...to talk with me. Perhaps you can start by offering a brief introduction to readers who might be unfamiliar with your life prior to the publication of Given Ground. Welcome...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...she serves (through the medium of the memorial) to welcome whites back to their Eternal Home. In turn, just as field slaves were located in outlying cabins, so other people...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
Review Whenever the concepts of diaspora and indigeneity come together, scholars tend to ascribe oppositional power to them. Diaspora implies transnational if not global movement, displacement, and attenuation while indigeneity...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...in May 1970, and first published in the Ladder 11/12 (August/September 1970). Charis's owners, as we will see, welcomed this type of involvement. Over time the store itself, founded as...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...the frontier hymns in The Sacred Harp is one of its distinguishing characteristics and Hulan’s research, which he likens to “chasing rainbow makers,” brings new light and a welcome perspective....
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...(20 Jul 1963; 6 Aug 1960). Nevertheless, not all of the company was welcome. O'Connor writes of an impending visit: Letter dated 27 October 1960. Permission granted by The Mary...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...the “overwhelming power” of the music joined with a feeling of being welcomed into an international “family” or “incredible community” of singers.13See the “Sacred Harp Singers of Cork” group on...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...worked to unseat the unwelcome settlers who proved to be disloyal and treacherous in their treatments of Indian people.12James Horn, A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...attorneys general welcomed the Court's Shelby County decision as a landmark for states' rights. "For nearly fifty years, Sections 4 and 5 have imposed an extraordinary intrusion into state sovereignty...