Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...eschewing the language of "legal lynching." Even as the number of documented cases declined during the 1930s, the NAACP reported in 1940 that lynching had not disappeared but gone "underground,"...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...are possible. In a boat at the mouth of the Altamaha River sat James Holland, around him the sea boiling, an eight-foot tide meeting thousands of gallons of fresh water...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...a trip around the time of the marriage. He reportedly purchased a magnolia tree seedling as a gift for his bride and planted it next to their house. A century...
Brushes with War
...Oil on Canvas by Winslow Homer. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number 22.207. Edging past Homer's iconic sniper, visitors to the DC venue had plenty to see—a display of sixty...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...and riddled them with bullets. It was the first triple lynching in the state since 1888, and the second lynching in Rowan County in just four years. In 1902, the...
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...
Editors
...Episode Three, "Massive Resistance," was an Emmy Nominee for 2000 from the Washington, DC, chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He is co-author with Edward L....
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...the Social Security Bulletin, 2016 (Washington, DC, 2017), Table 9. Beneficiaries who are miners and those who are widows, added together, do not equal the total number of miners judged...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...“pen” formed by four benches of singers, gave the “key note sound all around, and then as they sang he walked around and around. When a part, like the bass...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Houston and Texas Central Railroad in 1872, followed by the Texas and Pacific Railroad in 1873. From an early moment less reputable saloons began to operate around the H&TC station...