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...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...to complete because of environmental and public relations concerns and lawsuits filed by the mountain's owner and promoter, Hugh Morton. Screen capture of the GeoBrowse tool, Driving Through Time, 2012. The...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...so many of these people reach Kansas in poverty and suffering we should be untrue to our history…if we did not extend to them a cordial welcome.'"46Robert G. Athearn, In Search...
The Border South
...slavery dominated, secession sentiment boiled, and the humid, jungle-like climate welcomed the "slave drain" from Virginia in the 1850s. The idea that the Border South was not Southern, as tempting...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...promoted as a safe alternative to the existing road and as an economic boon to the area. Old US Route 19-23 was a steep, winding, unimproved two-lane shared by school...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...interest and decided to buy a car to restore. His original impulse was “to promote unity of the brothers.” Ancrum asked two men from each area of the county to...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...political football. Promotional infographic illustrating the making of Boyhood, 2014. © IFC Films. In times of economic crisis, many pundits and politicians choose to blame our problems on a degraded...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
Introduction James V. Catano Lush wilderness in a remote bayou and the exploratory genius of oil drilling technology; traditional ways of living and the intrusions of modern life; natural wealth...