The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...into the specific. Fortunately there are abundant resources for introductory encounters with the tradition, including many opportunities to attend a singing. Steel discusses The Sacred Harp’s editors and contents, its...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
Fort Scott newspapers
...are open questions." Fort Scott Herald. "The Right of Self Protection." April 5, 1879. "Fort Scott has no apology to make for the dreadful deed which was forced on the...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...1. In the aftermath of this feast, journalist Don Marquis suggested that "the possum, and all the talk back and forth across the festive boards . . . has likely...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...and beyond the archives. Gonaver's The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry is an intimate and detailed telling of the multiple lives contained within a forty-year history of...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...assist them, built the mission and fort of Apalachicola on the west bank of the Chattahoochee River. This site, located in Russell County, Alabama, lies about fifteen miles south of...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...discomfort " (xxiv). All are present in Bound for Glory. Guthrie's exploits, especially those of his youth, which take up a great part of the book, are somewhat less than...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...body of his dead father out back, and lording over a spooky lair that was once, among other things, a fort for Confederate soldiers.18Carcosa, the lair, was shot at Fort...