Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
Introduction Recording of "Coronation" #63 sung by Hoboken Sacred Harp Singers, led by Silas Lee, Florida Folk Festival. Courtesy of Florida Folklife Collection, State Library of Florida, May 4, 1958. Music...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...intellectual history, particularly around issues of race, religion, and politics. She is the author of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Now?: Multicultural Conservatism in America (New York University Press, 2001)...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...The Mississippi that once sported the nostalgic slogan "The Magnolia State" is pointedly nationalist now, declaring itself on license plates to be "The Birthplace of America's Music."3Born in Columbus, Georgia,...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...in America.1Joe A. Mobley, "In the Shadow of White Society: Princeville, a Black Town in North Carolina, 1865–1915," North Carolina Historical Review 63, no. 3 (1986): 340–84. Though Princeville may...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009). If discovered in such venues, military personnel faced certain punishment, if not discharge.16Gohlke, "Off-Limits." A native white Texan and...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...America (UMWA) had arisen, succeeded in a special election for leadership of the union, then disintegrated; the black lung movement had seemingly disappeared; and a storm of reaction was sweeping...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...in America. https://vimeo.com/478092922/d9ece1993b Donald Lawrence and the Tri-City Singers performing "When Sunday Comes." From Bible Stories (1995). For many of the artists in When Sunday Comes, singing gospel was not...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...a long way to go. It is still home to churches that host “Make America Straight Again” rallies, pastors who call for government eradication of all queer people, and the...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...professor of history at Florida State College at Jacksonville. He is author of Capturing the South: Imagining America's Most Documented Region (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018) and "John Cohen in...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...vol. 3, Record Group 60, Washington, DC; cited in Mark Laurence Goldstein, "Capital and Culture: William Wilson Corcoran and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America" (PhD diss., University of Maryland, 2015), 30–31....