An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...me to fast forward 160 years in our story and describe an event of which the seed, like everything else, was sown in the past. In July 2003, about a...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...New York University Press, 1997): 241–284. Elizabeth Anderson contributed the epilogue to this updated version. Photographer unknown, Charis Books and More, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006. During the 1970s, members of a...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...singer Warren Steel was expanding the biographical and historical notes of the book for a separate volume. In Makers of the Sacred Harp, Steel and contributing author Richard Hulan present...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...Literature 46.1 (March 1974): 56. Like the "stinger" of Christ lodged in Hazel Motes' mother's head, O'Connor demonstrates "that the violence of rejection in the modern world demands an equal violence...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...catalyzed reciprocal travel among fledgling Sacred Harp singing groups in Europe. Reciprocal travel, which helped sustain a plethora of rural southern singings in the wake of massive out-migration during the...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...parental status and their adopted children's inheritance rights through specific legislative acts.4Michael Grossberg, Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...as persons, especially their right to cast an equal vote to elect representative government. In the constitutional debates of 1787 when the founding convention considered what to do about slavery...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...get to use in today's world. But the word that comes to this driver's mind is slow. I feel it immediately as I enter the roadway—not only my car decelerating...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...That's what I thought the place was about. Those early photographs, as I look at them now, feel like clichés. Given time, my increasing personal involvement, and the challenges of...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...of civilization, outside of the southern states of this Union," it concluded. "The vengeance of the southern whites on negro ravishers shows that the elemental man, or the elemental savage,...