"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...that would politicize the plight of landless farmers and prod the government to help them. It was not a strike because the people there had already had their labor rejected...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...white interpreters at the site used the less emotionally charged term servants instead of slaves to describe the plantation laborers. In the last few years, historians at Arlington House have...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...reason they built the cabin there was because the water is always 70 or 72 degrees. This is right on the creek by a spring, and the house stayed cool...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...days spent in churches or community centers singing songs from The Sacred Harp, a nineteenth-century Georgia tunebook revised every generation or so. The tunebook uses a pedagogical system in which...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...on the captions, because I think we missed some really interesting turns of phrase. Jerry uses the old temperance phrase "teetotal," which just gets transcribed as "total." An opportunity is...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...southeast of the present-day town of Allendale. The will of Robert Martin stipulates that his house on Charlotte Street, its furniture, and "house servants" will remain in the custody of...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...this was possible because much deeply traditional life had long remained in the city, and also because the tradition writ large has been one of explicit improvisation—be it musical, in...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...setting of her fiction not only because it is familiar, but also because she finds a means of entering, through its peculiar apertures, an altogether different metaphysical locus. For this...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...stand in 1963, but were surprised at the building's level of decay: the administration warned us that structural instability might cause the roof to collapse while filming. We decided to...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...University of California Press, 2009), 46. One of these, the Williams House or "Yellow House" was located on the south side of "B" street (now Independence Avenue), more or less...