Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...make use of parallel fifths, in which an interval of a fifth is employed consecutively, and Sacred Harp composers consider two notes, often fifths, sufficient for a chord. Sacred Harp...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...college histories, books of old photographs, a group-written local mystery novel, and collections of radio columns. There have also been a number of "nature" books, including a history of the...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...persistence." Hundreds of scientists have contributed to the development of WWF's Conservation Science Program and identified over 800 distinct terrestrial ecoregions across the globe.1Robert G. Bailey, Description of the Ecoregions...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...to prevent blacks from voting for Democrats."71Charles Postel, The Populist Vision (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 196. Historian C. Vann Woodward points out the high degree of election fraud,...
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...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Elias) or she might have been Eliza, daughter to Charlotte, no age given, residing in the Mount Vernon Mansion House. She was the sister of Elvey and Jenny. In any...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...officers at the county level. Second, the poll tax and disenfranchisement provisions of the state's Constitution were instrumental in keeping voter participation at an abysmally low level. Byrd Democrats could...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...