Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...memorialized notes the collective and willful forgetting by Americans about slavery. Taking off from the installation of the first public civil rights monument at the market "honoring the struggle for...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...1997), 278. They also argue that the instability of poor people's lives generally prevents sustained efforts for social change. Despite day laborers' general lack of stability and resources, some of...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
Introduction Recording of "Coronation" #63 sung by Hoboken Sacred Harp Singers, led by Silas Lee, Florida Folk Festival. Courtesy of Florida Folklife Collection, State Library of Florida, May 4, 1958. Music...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
Introduction Location of Lockhart, Alabama, 2012. On a warm spring day in 1904, former governor of Maryland and lumberman E. E. Jackson, along with several associates, traveled to Alabama to...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...run away or to rebel, and they would bring additional value when they had babies—the so-called increase. Aunt Grace, for instance, gave birth to nine children, three of whom—Jacob, Jack,...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
Public Health Crossings Top, Colonel Bailey K. Ashford, ca. 1893. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Bottom, William H. Hunt, Governor of Puerto Rico, 1901–1904. Courtesy of...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...encounter with The Lightning Field in New Mexico, an installation piece by renowned sculptor, Walter De Maria. Dowda describes the piece as a quarter-mile long desert field installed with nearly...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...city.10Various Artists, Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album (Nonesuch Records, 2005). It instantly became the soundtrack of recovery, blaring from radios as hammers rang, saws cut, and backhoes cleared throughout...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...was not begun to free the slaves." Not much elaboration follows this forthright assessment. Instead, visitors can turn to two multimedia installations on the subject: the first-person "Journey to Freedom,"...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Mitchell first recorded Bryant in 1969. Over a decade later, at his coaxing, she played the Chattahoochee Folk Festival and was an instant hit. Her warm stage presence and lively...