The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
..."least of these" earned for Campbell the praise of a broad range of individuals, from former President Jimmy Carter and country music icon Tom T. Hall to neighbors on his...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...to expand its services. The brothers stayed on the cutting edge of new technology, adding Cirkut cameras to make panoramic photographs, aerial photography, and even motion pictures to their repertoire....
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...Composed Exclusively For the Under Ground Rail Road (1854), written for abolitionists ferrying enslaved people to freedom. The Emancipation Car includes forty-three poems, all meant to be sung to then-popular...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Country Road, Early Spring, Near Marks, Quitman County, Mississippi, photograph by Maude Schuyler Clay © 1997. See more at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery. Country Road, Winter, Near Marks, Quitman County, Mississippi, photograph by Maude Schuyler...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...Kennedy, she collected "fabulous folksongs, tales, and legends, possibly representing gleanings from days long gone by." She also drafted reports on the music of local church services and filed an...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...and, I might be rushing ahead, but it's a deeply troubling phenomenon as a Native American person in this country to know who took what you have. Who took our...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Sacred Harp singings. That Sacred Harp music came to be sung in Ireland in 2011 is both surprising and characteristic. While hundreds of Sacred Harp singings and conventions are held...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...Depression did more than spur the rise of the modern American regulatory state; it also saw the federal government take some ownership of the country's historical and cultural memory. After...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...Republican lawmakers in the state also plan to introduce an "omnibus voting bill" in the next few weeks that would decrease the number of early voting days and eliminate Sunday...