Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Association. In addition to hymn singing during the service, members gathered to sing hymns before the start of the service, a practice which continues today. Fellowship at a nearby home...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...public schools. These families can use the funds to send their children to almost any K–12 private school, including home-schooling, or purchase a wide range of educational materials and services,...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...1916. Photograph by Bain News Service. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection [LC-B2-650-15], loc.gov/pictures/item/2014683112/. Markets for the opossum expanded to northern cities in...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
Review From colonial founders' initial resistance to slavery to antebellum whites' embrace of it, Watson W. Jennison's Cultivating Race charts the first hundred years of Georgia's Anglo, African, and Native American...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...in the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina" (FEMA Caption). Structures marked with KEN were specifically searched for bodies by Kenyon International Emergency Services, a Texas company that provided mobile...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...at the mouth, Bayboro Harbor, just south of the city's previously moribund but now skyrocketing downtown. As one journeys southwest, going upstream, the creek services a working port (properties now...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...hesitancy, racial inequities in distribution, and state and local disparities in healthcare funding and facilities, continued to impede vaccine delivery as first the Delta variant and then Omicron took their...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Thursday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that it "will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days...
August, 1959: Morning Service
Beside the open window on the cemetery side, I drowsed as Preacher Lusk gripped his Bible like a bat snagged from the pentecostal gloom. In that room where heat clabbered...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...people, and ugly structures, all lumped together as blight. Urban boutique replaces existing stores and services that cater to poorer consumers—which encourages them to move.22For a recent analysis of "boutiquing"...