Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...his wife, Martha Custis Washington. After Mrs. Washington's death in 1802, a number of her slaves at Mount Vernon were inherited by Martha Custis Peter, adding to the Peter family...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...recounting her use of an article on our site in her teaching. Viewing Andrew M. Busch's Southern Spaces article "Crossing Over" on a phone. Screen capture of the new Southern...
The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...shoe. Given the size of the cockroach, some cleanup was in order, so she went down the hall to get paper towels from the restroom. On the way back, she...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...a capital letter." Recognizing, however, that in 1912 the word was considered by some a term of contempt, she hoped that in time "our whole race will feel it an...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...make use of parallel fifths, in which an interval of a fifth is employed consecutively, and Sacred Harp composers consider two notes, often fifths, sufficient for a chord. Sacred Harp...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
Congregation
Believe the report of the Lord; Face the things that confront you. Marquee (front and back), Greater Mt. Rest Baptist Church, Gulfport, Mississippi, May 2009 Witness...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...years of squabbling that its melody was beyond the register of ordinary people, for example, Congress in the 1930s finally made "The Star-Spangled Banner" the national anthem. A few years...