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...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...
Frank Willis
...I dance in toe shoes to the Beach Boys, in shame. Growing up in Washington I rode D.C. Transit, knew Senators, believed the Washington Monument was God's pencil because my...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...this decentralized music culture. Minutes detail the name of each song leader, the page number(s) of song(s) each person led, the names of officers and committee members, these committees' reports,...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...Topeka State Journal, Topeka, Kansas, December 22, 1896. Bottom, Excerpt, The Washington Times, Washington, DC, September 15, 1919. Newspaper article clippings. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...Washington, who called it a model of "thrift and self-government."2Melissa Block, "Here's What's Become of a Historic All-Black Town in the Mississippi Delta," Our Land, National Public Radio, March 8,...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...mental disturbance and had to leave his Sugaw Creek pulpit. The Reverend Eli Washington Caruthers defends another, the Reverend Richard Hugg King, against the suspicion of his congregation that he...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...blackness, and the fate of the US democratic experiment. Commissioned by the German television station ZDF as part of the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington, Dreams Are Colder...