Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
Introduction Letcher County Judge, Carroll Smith, visits with local resident loading house coal. Letcher County, KY, 2005. Taking pictures in conjunction with Volunteers In Service To America (1968-1970), then continuing...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...Pennsylvania" a reliable treat. Listen to Stein read excerpts from The Making of America Once out of Allegheny, Stein, like her teacher William James and his brother Henry and their...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...the “overwhelming power” of the music joined with a feeling of being welcomed into an international “family” or “incredible community” of singers.13See the “Sacred Harp Singers of Cork” group on...
The Border South
...of a border began to take shape. G. Woolworth Colton, Detail from Map of the United States of America, Original version available at The Library of Congress Maps Collection. Historians,...
The Shenandoah Valley
...beauty, rich soil, abundant water, and mild climate have contributed to its position as one of the most dynamic regions in Virginia, the South, and Eastern America. From the earliest...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...roads. In turn, anti-Klan activity during Reconstruction often protected streets and neighborhoods. Armed African American groups in Bennettsville, South Carolina, for example, organized protective street patrols.1Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...and Princeton Seminary and Slavery: A Report of the Historical Audit Committee (slavery.ptsem.edu/full-report). Also see Craig Steven Wilder, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities,...
The Liminal Site
...Vulcan statue. In 1924, when America's leading landscape architecture firm, Olmsted Brothers, put together their proposal A System of Parks and Playgrounds for Birmingham, they recommended this area be part...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006). As a powerful and often satirical mingling of classes and cultures in public feasting, float parades, walking societies,...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...Kwon Kun's fifteenth-century Kangnido map resembles today's maps with north at the top of the map, and it illustrates a southward pointing continent of Africa. Yet the blue space in...