Changing Places, Changing Lives
...worker experiences (12–13). Hatcher, Chas. F. Slave Depot advertisement, New Orleans, ca. 1861. Advertisement originally published in Gardner's New Orleans Directory for 1861 (Gardner, 1861). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848–1928 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). In particular, he examines Anglo attacks against Mexicans in the...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of fancy.2Edith Mayfield Wiggins, telephone conversation with author, July 10, 2014. Hers was a childhood surrounded by art publications and crafts in various media, and included museum trips to New...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...from the stone quarries. —Zbigniew Herbert, "Classic."1Zbigniew Herbert, Collected Poems, 1956–1968 (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 141. Thanks to Allen Tullos for suggesting this apt quote. Carol M. Highsmith, Smithsonian Institution...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...Public Schools." Southern Education Foundation (2015). http://www.southerneducation.org/Our-Strategies/Research-and-Publications/New-Majority-Diverse-Majority-Report-Series/A-New-Majority-2015-Update-Low-Income-Students-Now. ———. "Update A New Majority: Low Income Students in the South and Nation." Southern Education Foundation (2013). http://www.southerneducation.org/News-and-Events/posts/April-2014/Juvenile-Justice-Education-Programs-in-the-United-aspx.aspx. ———. "A New Majority: Low...
Mississippi Delta
...an extensive flood control system. The New Deal introduced the most extensive federal government presence in the region since Reconstruction. Planters used New Deal appropriations to their advantage, accepting payments...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...preserves. Sacred Harp music has its beginnings in New England music reforms. Puritans neglected sacred music, and by the late seventeenth century, many church-goers were weary of antiquated psalmody and...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...America; one document tells of a black fife and drum corps playing for a Confederate regiment."29Alan Lomax, The Land Where the Blues Began (New York: The New Press,1993), 333. "Every...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...visual images of New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast — some of them genuinely heart-rending, others gratuitously spectacular — were circulated worldwide via television broadcasts, newspaper and magazine articles,...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...which includes two new chapters and a moving, evocative photo gallery by Earl Dotter, thus entails not only additional research into medical, legal, and economic materials relevant to black lung,...