Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Harp singing features day- or weekend-long gatherings, where participants sing without an audience from a songbook called The Sacred Harp. The convention in Cork drew a crowd unprecedented among European...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...broad range of southern labor themes, including panels related to slavery and unfree labor; prisons and labor; oil, fishing, and the Gulf Coast; work and disaster capitalism; tourism and the...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...D. Moore (CC BY-SA 3.0). Photograph of the Arnold Bakery from Wikimedia Commons. Pragmatically, producing urban space depends on the deployment of capital and labor. But city building also requires...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...supervising some of St. Augustine's more dubious attractions, including "Luella Day McConnell's Fountain of Youth," where visitors still sip today.46Amy Howard, "Public Market (Slave Market)," published February 5, 2009, accessed...
Besieged Terrain
...today. Site of a strip mine on the south-southeast border of Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy of Kentucky Heartwood. The technique used to get the coal, called mountain top...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...hold on to it in a different way and walk around with it. At some point in “Nights and Days of Nineteen-Something,” he writes, Hear Jericho Brown read "Nights and Days...
Religion and the US South
...South was the movement of increasing numbers of settlers into backcountry areas of Virginia and the Carolinas after 1750. Attracted by inexpensive land, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Separate Baptists from the northern...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...degree of isolation or loneliness before, things that many queer people have been and continue to be all too familiar with, unfortunately so, day to day as many of us...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
Readings Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "The Change." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Off Season." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Packin' Four Corner Nabs." Poem text....