The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...the dancers in A Charlie Brown Christmas. The artwork for their albums, too, echoed this childish aesthetic. A drawing of band members as children—Lynda Stipe is called Missy here—comprises the...
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...had established "Avon Indian Farm" near the creek. In Sheriff Odum's telling, the mummified Indian was discovered "stretched out under a big old tree."1Odum's account is quoted in a laudatory...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...towns and institutions emerged wherever Black people lived. Before the end of the Civil War, Union soldiers defeating Confederate soldiers attracted emancipated Black people, who settled near Union encampments. In...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...has a photograph of a rubbing of the same stone. It leans against a tree and is partly illuminated by sunlight. Text carved in relief is nearly invisible in this...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...seen recently. The first-person viewing stage is nearly fifteen square feet and includes three seven foot high screens. The immersive visual effect comes from standing in a rotating 360 degree...
Palomares Bajo
...conventional explosives in two detonating near the town of Palomares (population: 2000).1Of multiple secondary sources in English and Spanish, my account relies foremost upon John Megara, "Dropping Nuclear Bombs on...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...and San Francisco, where their visibility and numbers result in political clout and political influence. Greenwich Village in New York and the Castro in San Francisco were two models; pioneer...