Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...from Fauquier County, Virginia, sometime before 1800. A Baptist minister, he married a Miss Stringfellow, and they had eight children. Their son Silas was born in 1800. In 1825 Silas...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...still trouble coalfield communities. There is a physician shortage and patients often have to travel considerable distances on poor roads to reach healthcare providers. Lack of adequate insurance also impedes...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...American travel or blues writer or a visitor from Europe or Asia, and these special guests are taken around the room by Mr. Seaberry and introduced to the regulars, who...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...African American grave site decorative traditions, such as personal photographs, items of clothing, and other relics and items that provide the traveler or mourner with a direct link to the...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...generation of academics have named it the southern imaginary—runs deep in American culture. We know that it defines, ensnares, and empowers whites and blacks. We know it has tremendous flexibility...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...winners of national quilt contests sponsored by Lands' End in the 1990s. Laurel Horton has been an active member of the American Quilt Study Group since 1983, served on that...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...York Times, February 13, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/us/north-carolina-approves-benefit-cuts-for-unemployed.html. With almost no consultation from other groups, the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce wrote the bill "reforming" the state's unemployment insurance program. While employers...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
Review The Ohio River figures prominently in what are arguably the three most significant novels of American slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Toni Morrison's Beloved both feature...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...been the most visited site in the entire national park system. In recent years, more than eighteen million visitors have traveled parts of the Parkway every year."1Anne Mitchell Whisnant, "About...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...Slaves? display, Richmond, Virginia, March 2011. Courtesy of the Virginia Historical Society. Virginia Historical Society, Group in An American Turning Point exhibit, Richmond, Virginia, April 2011. Courtesy of the Virginia...