Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...stand selling Confederate battle flags, for those attending the Confederate flag rally later that morning. "Confederate Flag Rallies" Since the Charleston Shooting Confederate battle flags (otherwise known as the flag...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...Land We Live in, the Land We Left: Virginia’s People,” an exhibition at the Library of Virginia in downtown Richmond, curated by Lisa Goff and coordinated by Barbara Batson, draws...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...sceptre, In one hand he holds the rod— In the other hand the Scripture, And says that he's a man of God. —Joshua McCarter Simpson Joshua McCarter Simpson, ca. 1840–1876....
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...Moving Image and Recorded Sound division house paintings, prints, sculptures, and artifacts and film, audio and video tapes, and sound recordings, respectively. As a consequence, the Schomburg Center as an...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...depicted as a peaceful land of lush vegetation and gentle, flowing rivers where families and friends reunite permanently and all sorrows cease. By contrast, this present life is a tangled...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...Spartanburg was ripe for a literary and environmental revolution—with a healthy population of writers and readers in its five colleges and universities and a rising interest in land use and...
Cajun South Louisiana
...seen in Creole cottages and shotgun houses, Caribbean rhythms in zydeco and jazz, and gumbo and red beans and rice. Other eighteenth-century population groups included German colonists, Spaniards, Islenos from...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...amount of land cleared, and growth of flood control and drainage systems in the Delta. By the turn of the twentieth century, the floodplain had become a leading production center...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...and that southern metal and cotton products would find commercial opportunities in Far Eastern markets.4William H. Taft, "The Winning of the South," Political Issues and Outlooks: Speeches Delivered Between August,...
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...