History: The Parlor
...as the one built by Samuel Snoddy before his marriage, would also include some sort of sitting room intended for the family's private use. Material culture researchers frequently refer to...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...Home Administration (FHA, later FmHA) offered loans to farmers unable to secure credit from private sources. These three powerful pseudo-democratic agencies became repositories of prejudice as they hired office staffs,...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
Review Cover of David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan's The Makers of the Sacred Harp, 2010. Shape-note singing from The Sacred Harp tunebook is one of the most vibrant...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...E. Cobb Jr., The Sacred Harp: A Tradition and Its Music (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989); John Bealle, Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong (Athens: University...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...nineteenth centuries.10Samuel Eliot Morison, The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages, A.D. 500–1600 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971), 105; Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of...
Brushes with War
...art works, plus a sampling of wartime photographs, drawn from over two dozen museums and private collections. The Georgia photographs of George N. Barnard were on loan from the Nelson-Atkins Museum...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
Introduction Percent of "Yes" vote in T-SPLOST referendum by precinct, August 2012, Atlanta Regional Commission. "We took on the governor, the lieutenant governor, the mayor, big business and slick political...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...name, however, and estimates of external sources suggest NSRP membership never exceeded 500. Although most of these members were men, women occupied a number of prominent positions within the party...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
Introduction On a warm Saturday in early summer, a crowd gathers at a white-washed church in rural Alabama. As they begin to sing, a sound rises that is overwhelming in...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...rhetoric and southern romanticism.2John Bealle, Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997); Kiri Miller, Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism...