St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...the St. Augustine 450th Commemoration is "St. Augustine 1565–2015," accessed March 30, 2012, https://sites.google.com/site/staugustine450/. A central goal is to integrate St. Augustine's histories of slavery and of civil rights into...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...lead songs, is the physical and spiritual center of Sacred Harp singings. Entering the Hollow Square The hollow square is central to understanding the music and music culture that surrounds...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Ole Boys Defined a State (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009), 4. To speak of an "Arkansas imaginary" in this essay is to conceptualize Arkansas as a site—particularly among poor...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...is a cultural production, a site whose significance lies in the multilayered interactions of tourists, tour providers, scientists and other visitors, and the body of cultural works about the cave...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Wallace had no intention of permitting any Alabama official to accept or implement token integration in the schools without an opportunity for him to publicly display his fight for complete...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...Hot Springs hoping to obtain treatment at the VD clinic operated there by the United States Public Health Service (PHS). Her experience was less than satisfactory. Because the clinic officially...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...for illicit marijuana use, New Orleans offers an excellent case study for testing prominent aspects of the existing historiography. Given what we now know about marijuana's effects, there is certainly...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...my extensive collection. This accompanying text offers some thoughts about the significance of these shrines. These handmade memorials were erected to honor loved ones who died near or on a...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...the Constitution of 1824 officially establishing the First Mexican Republic (Primera República Federal), known as the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos). As the EUM sorted out its leadership and...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...singing, despite the lack of official denominational support. Sacred Harp found a special ally in the Primitive Baptists who resisted the modernization of church music (Cobb 1989, 5). To this...