Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Courtesy of The Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, digital ID loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsc.00338/. Folklorist Joshua Clegg Caffery's inaugural book, Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana: The 1934 Lomax Recordings (2013),...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...activist abolitionists, many political figures, even those who often clashed, could come to some shared perspectives— President Andrew Jackson advocated a federal law that would authorize censoring abolitionist mail.8Manisha Sinha, The...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...13, 2011, accessed, August 26, 2012, http://www.metroatlantatransportationvote.com/documents/Final_project_list_5-3-2012.pdf. Then the going got rough. From the outset, the Tea Party assailed a project list that squandered precious resources on transit. The Georgia...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...report that these sites of national importance were "transferred to the glowing canvas . . . by an American artist."7Description of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, the Niagara River and...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...East Austin, the number of African American residents declined by 3,711 (14.5 percent) from 2000 to 2010.19City of Austin, "District 1 Demographic Profile," http://www.austintexas.gov/sites/ default/files/files/Planning/Demographics/District_1_demographic_profile_2000_2010.pdf, accessed March 18, 2015. Core...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...racist violence, employing countless acts of terror to enforce white supremacy. The idea that racist violence was overwhelmingly "Southern," however, has hindered a comprehensive appraisal of it in other sections...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Christian Science Monitor, May 29, 1987, http://www.csmonitor.com/1987/0529/amecca.html; David L. Sjoquist, "The Atlanta Paradox: Introduction," in The Atlanta Paradox, ed. David L. Sjoquist (New York City: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000), 1–14....
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
..."the most rabid, and unreasoning integrationist paper that I know of." He pounded on the table and shook his fist at the Post, but Byrd could do little about it....
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...recordings and field notes of both expeditions and can be browsed by performer, place, and format. Several essays created specifically for this online presentation are also featured on the site,...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Enslavement The monuments commemorating the Foot Soldiers and Andrew Young construct new layers of meaning for the Plaza de la Constitución, yet the site is rarely labeled on tourist maps...