Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...chair at all meetings.5In 1919 this chair was donated to the church by the Reverend Sunday Fife. The back rows of the church are for the visitors and members. Jimmie...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...money was poured into draining the land and erecting exhibition halls, on the overhyped projection the fair would attract four million visitors. A mere one-quarter of that number showed up,...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...University of Southern California. He is the author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945 (Oxford University Press, 1993), co-editor of Los Angeles and...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...in each hand a giant sparkler irradiating the movie's title in untamable light. Film poster for Beasts of the Southern Wild, Twentieth Century Fox, 2012. My present passion is luminous...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...year between 1995 and 2014 in sequence. Global Sacred Harp Singings, 1995–2014 Global Sacred Harp Singings, 1995–2014. Interactive Map by Jesse P. Karlsberg and Robert A. W. Dunn. View larger...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA), June 25, 1973, Monday Morning Edition, 1. The Up Stairs Lounge arson and media coverage acknowledged a thriving gay culture within the French Quarter. The arson's...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...of the Insane in the United States and Canada, vol. 1 (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1916). Courtesy of Internet Archives and Yale University. Gonaver's goal is to show...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
..."The Genesis of Downtown: Logan-Welch West Virginia Urban Coalfield Life, The Photographs of Russell Lee and Earl Dotter, 1946 and 2006" and "Our Future in Retrospect: Coal Miner Health in...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...printed in St. Petersburg (FL) Times, Feb. 14, 1931, 2–3; see also "Open Waters in Salt Creek" St. Petersburg (FL) Times, June 16, 1921, 10. Most recently, the city revised...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...of the institution on the tobacco plantations of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Chesapeake or its subsequent expansion into the antebellum Deep South during the nineteenth century, Louisiana: Crossroads of the...