Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...been funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. He has also held a Postdoctoral Fellowship for Advanced Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences from the Andrew...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...as Humanitarian Operation arrivals, my family’s history offers an illuminating narrative.1This essay draws upon excerpts from an oral history conducted by the author with Đỗ Phương Anh Linh in November...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
Banner image for Driving Through Time, DocSouth, 2012. Review Well-worn words and phrases come to mind when driving the Blue Ridge Parkway—stunning, dramatic, timeless, a miracle of engineering and landscape...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Ybor City sites such as restaurants, cigar factories, and social clubs. Artist unknown, Drawn portrait of Vicente Martinez Ybor, Tampa, Florida, 18--. Catalog no.: Rc08098. Photographer unknown, Three views of...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...University, 2016). Meanwhile, journalists and individuals across Sacred Harp's geography associated the style with "old-fogy" rural southern white culture in decline and regularly foretold the style's extinction in the southern...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...Georgia, all-day singing, we recorded three hours of the annual singing at Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church in rural Fayette County in west Alabama. This lively, midsize singing is in an...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...the Lowcountry Digital Library at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. With grant support from the Humanities Council of South Carolina and a major award from the Gaylord and Dorothy...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...culture unless we're careful." Here, she defines "culture" not as a particular art form or creative expression, but as a "special insight that connects us to something human."1Arthur Jafa, Dreams...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...more contemporary concerns about human health, and she "crystallized the recognition that humans were fundamentally altering the environment" (83). Just as significant as this rethinking of Silent Spring and pesticide...