Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
Georgetown, 1874. Map by Faehtz & Pratt. Courtesy of Library of Congress. During the night of June 19, 2023, the first federally recognized Juneteenth holiday, an unknown vandal or vandals...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...and the way the Gaither Homecoming appropriated them as children of traditional gospel values at a moment when the viability of these values was perceived to be in question. The...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...books like Fast Food Nation. Flocking Together Allison O. Adams, A guest visits with the chickens at the first Cluckapalooza, Decatur, Georgia, September 2004 Urban flock keeping has grown into...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
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The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...phrase "no waste in material" support one of the traditional values associated with quiltmaking: thrift. The pattern name and the label suggest that thrift is the predominant value expressed by...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...
Piedmont Blues
...York State into Alabama, the Piedmont blues region remains a subset within this larger area. Realistically, culturally-defined regions are fluid constructions that often defy firm boundary line. However, for the...
Failed Memory Exercise
...flowerbeds For the pumps and grease rack of the new Shell; But begin again, for the dark green Lincoln rises To its lube and crests where Zetty's kitchen was: The...
The Chesapeake Bay
...they were not conservationists. They cleared lands and moved as necessary, their low numbers making little impact on the available resources (with the significant exception of white-tail deer which Indians...