"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Dorothy Height and Eleanor Holmes Norton. Following the publication of their controversial book Abortion Rap (1971), both Florynce Kennedy and Diane Schulder appeared on the radio series to discuss the...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...development and the ways in which the pursuit of water security changed. This approach allows him to focus on private power companies and the hydroelectric dams they built in the...
The Border South
...shape these states increasingly were understood and understood themselves as on the border. They contained various sub regions and economies, but all allowed and, indeed, promoted slavery. Virginia, for example,...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...adopted by singing masters as other shape note songbooks appeared in the mid-Atlantic, midwestern, and southern states in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Singing schools and shape note...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...to purchase for $3 each. Morris gradually purchased approximately 500 negatives for the State Archives in Tallahassee. Burgert Brothers, Women making cigars at Corral & Wodiska cigar factory, Tampa, Florida....
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
"Made by Mary Louisa Snoddy Black—‘The Tulip’ design. Cousin Theresa Snoddy helped quilt it." History: The Tulip was one of the most popular appliqué patterns in the Carolina upcountry during...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...schools in a desperate attempt to convince federal courts that separate could be equal. White officials tried in vain to give the appearance of equality to spaces and institutions conceived...
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...neatly replaced the hardscrabble pioneers of Appalachia. Living on the nuclear frontier, Oak Ridgers understood their home as "an island of culture, prestige, and intelligence" (37). The Army Corps hired...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...in, and worked as an apprentice for Sam Hamill and Tree Swenson at Copper Canyon Press, working for almost a year learning letterpress. The practice of poetry in Port Townsend...