A Conversation with Digital Historians
...of the different things that might be possible with the archive that we were building—in this case, The Valley of the Shadow—I was intrigued. But I didn’t really know then...
Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...North Carolina, for a wedding and observed the aftermath of that September's devastating floods resulting from the torrential rains of Hurricane Floyd. Shells of houses stood spray-painted with large Xs....
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...North Carolina," was one of the earliest studies of regional variations in American quiltmaking traditions. Between 1983 and 1985, Horton worked with the McKissick Museum at the University of South...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...embarrassed that my photographs offered no tangible benefits in a place that seemed to value useful things that aided survival: firewood, bean seeds, a cut of cloth. Then, as I...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Rainey in 1924.1Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, vocal performance of "See See Rider Blues" by Ma Rainey and Lena Arant, recorded October 16, 1924, by Paramount, catalogue number 12252, 78 rpm. With "Betty and Dupree,"...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...Pentecostal to Baptist. https://vimeo.com/478204922/75a8c14d45 John P. Kee and The New Life Community Choir performing "Lily in the Valley." From Lily in the Valley (1993). Especially down south, Kee's blue-collar aesthetic...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...will tell you, 768 consecutive days). This winter haven boomed in the early twentieth century. White vacationers and retirees flocked here for the weather, often to relax on the green...