A Conversation with Digital Historians
...We’ve done some projects on Richmond and the state of Virginia. We’ve done some projects on the South. And we’ve done some projects on the United States. Most of these...
Cajun South Louisiana
...passions. Alexander Mouton, a third generation Acadian, was a leader of south Louisianas Democrats, serving as Louisiana governor and United States Senator and establishing a potent Acadian political influence in...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...II in the “City of Big Shoulders.” Twenty years later, industrial jobs migrated west, to non-union southern states, or outside the United States to developing countries. Economic decline plays into...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...University of Virginia Press, 2013); William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence Against Mexicans in the United States, 1848–1928 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); and Michael J....
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...affluent, white, urban easterners. As the opening sentence of Upon Provincialism notes, "Local-color writing concerning the southern United States from 1870 until 1900 reveals as much about national readers and...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...western borders, prior to the Civil War. South Carolina's northwestern border in 1818 encompassed terrain formerly identified as "Cherokees Country" in the map from 1779. John Pinkerton, "United States of...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...flyer at the seventeenth United Kingdom Sacred Harp Convention advertising "American shape-note singing," Winnersh, United Kingdom, 2012. In November, I remarked that "many new singers," such as those in Europe,...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...ILA Local 3000, due to both the legally untenable nature of segregated memberships and the poor prospect of survival in the face of declining numbers. United Fruit Company banana conveyors,...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...wonder, has our imagination of what the United States looked like and felt like in the nineteen-thirties been determined not by novel or play or a poem or a painting...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...