Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...Carolina and Atlanta and traveled the region while doing summer jobs. He taught at colleges and universities in Atlanta and worked in the city government during the second term of...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
Greetings from Austin Greetings From Austin, Capitol of Texas. Photograph by Flickr user mirsasha (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). In July of 2011 Bon Appétit named Franklin Barbecue of Austin, Texas, the...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...glad the war ended. The soldier who took her away from the lint and heat leans on the mill gate waiting for her. It is October, he holds a cigarette...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...town. The saw mills have closed, and the toy factory. Lynne Fashions closed in the early '90s, the Health-Tex garment plant a couple of years ago. Mama and I eat...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...of Georgia, extending from the mouth of the River Savannah to the town of Augusta, 1780. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, 73694481. When addressing more fluid locations, Paulett's...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...1656 Timucua Rebellion. La Florida's governor, Franciscan missionaries, and Timicua Indians each worked to channel the flow of information and shape it to their particular narrative. The governor blamed the...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Conservation of Biological Diversity (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005). J.W. Watson and P.B. Eyzaguirre, editors, "Proceedings of the Second International Home Gardens Workshop: Contribution of home gardens to in...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...of photographs he shot during his travels across the country. The floor was strewn with prints. Frank's photographs captivated Cohen and showed him another way of seeing his surroundings. While...