Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...north. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, the numbers of enslaved in the District of Columbia declined. By 1850 (when Nannie was two years old) 3,185 of the 13,746...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...accessed January 28, 2014, http://www.religiondispatches.org/books/culture/6221/the_gospel_church_and_the_ruining_of_gay_lives%3 A_an_interview_with_anthony_heilbut/; and Heilbut, The Fan Who Knew Too Much: Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...chicken laws for the new municipality — it had occurred to no one to write them into the original code. As of this writing, they need only one more City...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...text. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: The impact on musics of migration into, out of, or within regions of the US South Southern musics outside the US...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...over 125 years old, but there are no signs of wear to indicate that it was used regularly. In fact, none of the quilts in the Black family collection show...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...may have been left over from one or more of Nannie's (Nancy Snoddy Coan's) other quilts [see Laurel Horton, Mary Black's Family Quilts]. Had they been created with the intention...
Piedmont Blues
...talented blues guitarist of his era and is considered by some to be one of the best acoustic blues guitarists of all time. He was an itinerant songster, and his...
Failed Memory Exercise
...I bump awake over the Atlantic Or wait in the plant-hung lobby of a hotel In Atlanta or Montreal and answer then, though I do not know the nature of...
The Chesapeake Bay
...years ago, probably to dry oysters for storage and transportation to inland villages. Indian populations were rising and there were probably scheduling conflicts over the use of the oyster beds....