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,...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...were not just spaces he traveled through but places that laid claim to his emotions, places whose cultures and institutions and landscapes shaped his experience and imagination. In his life,...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...has absorbed them, is using them, and will build upon them. In some places, social change comes in the volcanic eruption of revolution, while in academia change generally comes from...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...the United States, due process and equal protection of the laws, House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons," and citizens' right to vote without regard to "race, color,...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...Throughout the archive videos, other artists reference Ghost Town, T. T. Tucker, and other defining people and places in the New Orleans hip-hop canon. Streets and neighborhoods serve as important...
Good-Bye to All That?
...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...convincing poor whites that enslaving African Americans was in their best interests. Jennison surveys white Georgians' opinions on racial and class divisions to great effect, mining the 1852 and 1853...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...before speaking. "My people were humble," she began. "They provided for their families. They tried to protect their children as best they could from the cruelties of this world, but...