Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...space. St. Thomas Street: the before photo. View shows street view prior to the demolition that cleared the area for the St. Thomas Housing Project. New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1939....
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
...Part 3: Womack contrasts Posey’s stories of racial/ethnic interdependency with the contemporary reality in the Creek Confederacy About Craig Womack Dr. Craig Womack is an Oklahoma Creek-Cherokee Native American literary scholar,...
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...
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,...
Cajun South Louisiana
...using it to describe the stations broadcast area. It is more popularly known as Cajun Louisiana. C. Paige Gutierrez describes the region as the South of the South, while folklorist...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Bottom-Land Hardwood Unit in Mississippi," Forest Survey Release, no. 6 (New Orleans: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station, 1934), 2–5. In the following decades, land clearing...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Archives; Rick Stamm, Keeper, Castle Collection, Architectural History and Historic Preservation Division, Smithsonian Institution; Wendy Kail, archivist, Tudor Place Foundation; Julie Miller, Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress; Special Collection Archivist...
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...