Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...we'd get up on the chair and play it. Everyone in my family could play—we had five boys and four girls. We could play fiddles too.' When he got up...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Twenty-one children for two couples may seem extraordinary and could possibly feed into some of the prevailing stereotypes that portrayed primitive "Orientals" engaging in...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...have imagined their new singings as revivals of these lapsed earlier practices.2See John Bealle, Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997), 188–244...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...it were adopted even now.13John Nolen, City Planning Report: St. Petersburg Today, St. Petersburg Tomorrow (St. Petersburg, FL: St. Petersburg City Planning Board, 1923), https://friendsofsaltcreek.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/St-Petersburg-Today-St-Petersburg-Tomorrow-1923-Nolen-Plan-1.pdf; St. Petersburg Conceptual Plan (City...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Mt. Zion Cemetery: Washington, DC, Brief History and Interments, comp. by Paul E. Sluby, Sr. (Washington DC: Columbian Harmony Society, 1984); Paul E. Sluby, Sr., Bury me deep: Burial Places Past...
Deep Ellum Blues
...been the undisputed musical center of Texas. Audio Clips: Audio clip from the Prairie Ramblers, "Deep Elem Blues," 1935. Audio Clip from Hank Thompson, "Deep Elem Blues," 1958. Audio clip...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...attesting to Cobb's exemplary behavior at Milledgeville. In 1910, prison administrators included a photograph of Cobb to provide evidence of her physical defects (particularly the large growth on her neck)...
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
...part of the Green Power Switch program of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The windfarm consists of eighteen turbines and generates a total capacity of twenty-nine megawatts, which is enough to...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...It is the troubled generations between the pre-Columbian past and the post-Pasteur present that occupy McCandless, who taught history at the College of Charleston from 1974 until his retirement in...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...Mississippi drainage basin. Flooding, of course, has always posed a physical threat to human subsistence in the lower-lying parts of the immense watershed that drains some 40 percent of the...