Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...similar to singing in rounds. The different parts enter at different intervals as they repeat a line. History of Sacred Harp Title page of the fourth edition of The Sacred...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...are more often than not organized around watersheds and have nonrigid boundaries that differ from political borders like those around counties or nations. After only a few months in Port...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Line," Wood County Reporter (Grand Rapids, WI), Sep. 23, 1886, 6, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033078/1886-09-23/ed-1/seq-6/. Stereotypical depictions of place and race formed around the native marsupial. "No one ever located the opossum hunt...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...male. However, since at the least the 1970s, women have worked in the mines, including underground, albeit in small numbers. I use the language of "wives and widows" because most...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...by the federal government. These are important not only to provide background and context, but also because the often-contested terrain of scientific knowledge and expertise is so central to understanding...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...never done any filming at all. Because of my agricultural background and my organizing, and farming, I came back to the United States and, after a couple of fits and...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...by having the climactic scene of "Kabnis" take place underground is figured aboveground in 12 Years a Slave. At one point during his captivity on the Epps plantation (time in...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...His Head": Slavery and the Texas-Mexico Border, 1810–1860," Journal of Social History 37, No. 3 (Spring 2004): 709–723. While employment by white colonists—often former slave owners—brought an unspecified number of...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...institution, so long dominated by a privileged few. Background Material, 2009 Juan Logan and Susan Harbage Page Wood, fabric, paint, and paper Juan Logan's Background Material: Wallpaper, a...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...the March on Washington, Karro organized a community road trip from her suburban Maryland neighborhood to Danville where they joined meetings and attended church.45The Washington Post, September 5, 1963. USPS...