Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...breath" (34). Many Mammoth Cave writers described "trying the dark," a trial that involved the cave guide leaving a visitor deprived of any lamplight for a few minutes of tortuous...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...to go to school with the Blacks because they are dirty!" "As a Black man I will join any group of oppressed people," he declared, "but when that group employs...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...one is to understand the many versions of the South that circulate throughout US history and culture, one has always to see them as fundamentally connected to, and defined in...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...catastrophe by any standard. Some 1,800 persons were killed outright. More than a million people were forced to relocate, many for the remainder of their lives. A city of 500,000...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...remains unfamiliar enough to most people that basic description continues to be a necessary prelude to any discussion. Steel provides two summary descriptions. “Sacred Harp singing is a community musical...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...are arranged to form a "checkerboard" design of alternating dark and light diamonds. Construction: Rosa's Log Cabin incorporates a large number of different printed fabrics. The dark palette is limited...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...number of such case studies have been done, then to look for patterns." Bioregional history is, therefore, the story of different but successive cultures occupying the same space.2Dan Flores, "Place:...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...condition called climax, "'virgin forest'—many species, old bones, lots of rotten leaves, complex energy pathways, woodpeckers living in snags, and conies harvesting tiny piles of grass. This condition has considerable...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
Introduction The True Image explores the history and output of Scotch-Irish stonecutters in the early backcountry of Pennsylvania and the Carolinas. For none of them do we have any personal...