Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...he was twelve, and "started off ragging it, playing them rag pieces" that were traditional to the Chattahoochee Valley.8Liner notes from William Robertson's LP South Georgia Blues. In Jim Pettigrew's...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...Possibilities in Canadian Fiction (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2003). However, as more recent scholars like Catherine A. Davies have written, in the push for a field of homotextual criticism, Stockinger...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...go without adopting the radical policy of widespread abolition. Here again, Custis was typical of slave owners in arguing for colonization not from recognition of the humanity of his charges...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...Radical Race Policy," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 110, no. 1 (1966): 1–9. The US Supreme Court did as much or more than the other two branches of the national...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...Democratic Party."8Brief of Amicus Curiae The National Republican Redistricting Trust in Support of Appellants/Petitioners, Merrill v. Milligan, May 2, 2022, https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-1086/222354/20220502163340023_21-1086%20and%2021-1087%20Amicus%20NRRT%20Supp.%20Appellants.pdf. The NRRT brief cites an earlier lower court opinion...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...the petitions stated, "We beg you Mr. Liebman [Ron Leibman, who played the union organizer] please don't let us miss Norma Rae. We have heard so much about it and...
Encountering COVID
...replication, and entrenchment of health disparities; the ways that race and gender shape and are shaped by health policy; and the inseparable connection between health justice and health advocacy. Beginning...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...and New Mexico, 1800–1850 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 37. Wahlstrom's research makes clear that the US-Mexico War did not diminish economic and settlement patterns. Instead, ex-Confederate migration mapped...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
Introduction On a warm Saturday in early summer, a crowd gathers at a white-washed church in rural Alabama. As they begin to sing, a sound rises that is overwhelming in...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...origin in a preexisting repertoire shared by both groups. Among those who moved west to the Chattahoochee Valley were Sacred Harp editors B.F. White and E.J. King. Born in 1800,...