Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...ends. The culvert takes a sharp turn at the boundary of church and city land, then runs north, along a straight ditch to north-south running Twenty-Sixth Street. On the other...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...stretch into northern Georgia and Alabama, and accrued strong followings in parts of northern Mississippi and some locales of Tennessee as well. George Pullen Jackson speculated in 1944 that "aside...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
Review Rowan County Court House and Jail, Salisbury, North Carolina, circa 1905-1915. Courtesy of the Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...war work with the War Department. In the 1878 DC city directory, Elizabeth Tinney, listed as widow of Pompey Tinney, resides at 1528 L Street, Northwest, with her son James...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...Virginia" (181).11Bayard Taylor's Mammoth Cave narrative was included in At Home and Abroad (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1859). After portraying the cave region as a blend of northern and southern charms, his...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997), 173-74; Grey, New Deal Medicine, 128. By early 1945, with the war in...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...of a number of "marked trails" of this era—would join existing local roads into a long-distance highway linking north and south. Not coincidentally, it would connect the metropolitan North with...
Piedmont Blues
...since childhood, Saunders Terrell (1911-1986) was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He met McGhee (1915-1996) in North Carolina in 1939. They had both been attracted into the orbit of the...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...Márquez, Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), 17. Between the 1940s through early 2000s, Márquez places questions about Latino racialization at...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, leading to the shooting deaths of four protest leaders. The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment Mindful of the historical context, civil rights organizers associated with the...