Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...a limited number of tunes. Singing schools emerged to teach lay-persons the basics of reading and performing music. These schools operated independently of any congregation or denomination and were run...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...the last Ice Age." Berg ends his introduction by placing his natural countries in an anatomical metaphor suggesting the emerging Gaia hypothesis (that earth is one large organism) made popular...
Cajun South Louisiana
...area that was part of a larger French West Indian plantation zone in the 1700s, and descendants of these early French landowners would become farmers and planters in the area,...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...however, typically ignore political and other man-made boundaries. By the 1970s, the US public land management agencies had realized the importance of land classification on the basis of regional variations...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...The Opossum and American Foodways" (Washington DC: Library of Congress, August 15, 2019), https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2019/08/a-possum-crisp-and-brown-the-opossum-and-american-foodways/. Laborers employed by wealthy Cajun farmer Joseph La Blanc holding an opossum and birds they shot...
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...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...labor market at the time, that some of these skilled and unskilled laborers were enslaved. (Many District of Columbia slaveowners during this period earned significant income from renting out slaves...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...was to incite a riot or engage in any violation of the law." Tuck had served as governor in the late 1940s and was a top Byrd organization politician. Byrd,...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...male. However, since at the least the 1970s, women have worked in the mines, including underground, albeit in small numbers. I use the language of "wives and widows" because most...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...large single tulip motif. Each tulip blossom has five points and is attached to a stem having two small leaves. Compared with other appliquéd floral patterns, these "Carolina" Tulip quilts...