A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...after the defeat of the Confederate States of America, however, Richmond stubbornly clung to its "lost cause." Led by its veterans and ladies associations, the city put up a massive...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...if publication is refused. This exhibition of unashamed aggression on the part of the "respectable" must give us pause. The threat of open violence, accompanied by the use of lower...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...gawking tourists, all staples of premiers up at Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard.1We should all refuse to call Grauman's Chinese Theater, with its famed footprints of the stars out...
The Shenandoah Valley
...and Eastern Woodland Indians used it to occupy the edges of their tribal territories and as an avenue for travel and warfare. Map of Virginia indicating Powhatan presence, 1924. Map...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...honor to be called 'Negroes'." From the use of "colored" and "Negro" to "African American," "Black," and "Bi-racial," the problem of naming and being named has reflected the struggles of...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...with family tradition or geographical history. Devotees sing Sacred Harp because they enjoy the music, food, and fellowship; because they find spiritual or religious meaning in the music and the...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...the head of a hollow that is used for waste disposal. Then, reclamation (i.e., attempts to restore the area to a useful standard) occurs. This involves using the graded and...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...a strong "state interest." In effect, he is almost inviting the use of "fraud" on the same unproven terms as lawyers and government officials have used them in attempting to...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...easy for readers to bypass, particularly because modern reproduction obscures some of the details of this image, originally produced as a copperplate engraving in the mid-1770s. Yet it is worth...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...or more precisely the sense of feeling “more at home” with specific terms was useful in coming to an understanding of the way in which our use of language is...