University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
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...
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...
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...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...creative and innovative mapping of the country's "petrochemical culture." The book creates a new benchmark for representing eco-cultural history, outlining the impact of the nation's oil dependent economy on the...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...offered the best business opportunities for freed Blacks. In a booming economy like Atlanta's, a few Blacks made a good income catering to whites in personal services such as barbering,...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...arms, as well as her legs, protect her limbs from the leathering rays of the sun. Folk myths aside, this work is being done under a sun in which people...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Alabama has provided the setting for a number of influential studies on race, labor, and radicalism in the Jim Crow South. Yet in shifting attention from Scottsboro's sleepy courthouse square...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...the African American and low-income white neighborhoods of West Anniston. Reproduced from Baptized in PCBs, 76. Courtesy of Ellen Spears. During World War II, the Chemical Warfare Service set up...