Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...the local militia married Rosa Miller Benson, age twenty-seven. Rosa came from a locally prominent family in the same community. Her grandfather, Robert Benson, migrated to Greenville County, South Carolina,...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Mississippi, Illinois, and Missouri Rivers (3). As she demonstrates in discussing the Commerce Map—a rock drawing (located about 150 miles south of present-day St. Louis) that is the oldest known...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...and write a poem."8Elizabeth Alexander, The Venus Hottentot (Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2004 [1990]), 50. New Orleans; Johannesburg; Philadelphia; Kingston; London; Cambridge; Miami; Sparta, Georgia: but a few of the locations in...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...are the huge numbers of young people who boycotted middle school and high school classes last year to speak out for the dangers to their immigrant parents. In the South,...
Religion and the US South
Introduction Hope Mills Rapid Lube Sign, Hope Mills, North Carolina, March 20, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user Gerry Dincher. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. Religion has been a formative...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...wellspring of the “ultimate traditional Sacred Harp singers.”2Kiri Miller, Traveling Home, Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism, University of Illinois Press, 2008, 102. Miller’s book, which includes a substantive discussion...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...more diverse audiences."4Shady, phone interview with author, November 12, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. LiFT attendee Mikey P interacts with a series of beat machines from different eras of hip...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...finds "a select number" of black southerners in Mexican settlements after the Civil War, and that the "dual movement of southerners" was "greatly skewed toward white migrants" (xxii, 26). A much larger...
Genres of Southern Literature
...southern modernism, the southern grotesque, and yes, even "grit lit." Genre in Relation to History and Historical Coverage Staircase at Square Books, Oxford, Missippi, July 5, 2006. Photograph by Flickr...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...Watch, Dec. 13, 2023, https://westvirginiawatch.com/2023/12/13/public-schools-likely-to-lose-21m-after-thousands-of-students-left-for-hope-scholarship/; Annelise Hanshaw, “Opposition remains for sprawling education bill expanding Missouri private school tax credits,” Missouri Independent, Mar. 28, 2024, https://missouriindependent.com/2024/03/28/opposition-remains-for-sprawling-education-bill-expanding-missouri-private-school-tax-credits/; McKenna Horsley, “‘Game changer:’ Amendment...