Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...day, many singings are held in Primitive Baptist churches, though Methodist and Missionary Baptist churches are frequently used. In addition to the larger conventions, which persist in a slightly altered...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...big break most writers dream about. Brian Stansberry, Visitors stand next to a 400-year-old tree at the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest in Graham County, North Carolina, October 2010. That fall,...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...Shepherd's work? Brown: I just think it's his best work. I think it's his most beautiful poems. I think when his mother comes into a poem, I'm probably going to...
Good-Bye to All That?
...young men (mostly black and brown) at a staggering rate; growing numbers of Americans remain food insecure in the richest nation on earth; despite the gains of the last year,...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...Post (1612–1680). Courtesy of the Alte Pinakothek and the Bavarian State Painting Collections. A 1649 painting by the Dutch artist Frans Post testifies to the role of Dutch landscape painting...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...The Standard Guide to St. Augustine (St. Augustine, FL: E. H. Reynolds, 1892), 53-4. In addition to his "Standard Guide" Reynolds published the book Old Saint Augustine: A Story of...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...season one, Rust and Marty uncover strange genealogies and rigged systems, sometimes reluctantly and always at great cost to their lives and security. They commit awful violence against people, such...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...refutes this claim. National Park Service, "Stephen Site Bulletin," www.nps.gov/maca/stephen.pdf. Here is Willis's oft-cited account of his first view of Stephen Bishop: The ladies of this party were talking with...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...case of the last interview in Brother Towns was a guy named Juan. He only wanted to give his first name, and we only used first names. In some cases...