Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...it, "General Robert E. Lee Remembered on January 19." On that page, the struggle continues still over our collective history. On a following page was an announcement of a meeting...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...government passed. This paramount power of southern states would allow the South to remain a separate section of the nation with slavery. Much of the Lincoln-Douglas debates developed around Stephen...
Good-Bye to All That?
...representation in the state house and senate moved back and forth between fairly conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans and there was considerable cross-party cooperation. Party affiliation by race in Pisgah...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...in tribute to Africana artists past. The 90th Birthday Paul Robeson Tribute at New York's Shubert Theater for instance, featured Christopher Reeves, Uta Hagen, Joeseph "Joe" Papp, and the Duke...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...singing its haunting, ancient sound? In Sacred Harp music, the tenor part may carry the melody, but each of the other parts (bass, alto, treble) have important roles. Composers also...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...of Pacific Rim communities, biological and cultural features of distinct regions, and in interdependence of all life along the Pacific Rim."1For a little of the bioregional history of Poet Townsend's...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the lower coast and into the Atchafalaya Swamp Basin to the southwest. Plan d'une partie du Vermillion District Attacapas, [Attakapa region land grants], Louisiana, ca. 1795–1816. Map by François Gonsoulin...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...number of such case studies have been done, then to look for patterns." Bioregional history is, therefore, the story of different but successive cultures occupying the same space.2Dan Flores, "Place:...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...any constitutional partiality on their part, or difference in their tastes [. . .], as from the absence of fresh meats of all kinds," other slaves and freed people expressed...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...