Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...with the purpose of advertising or displaying specific subjects for paying clients. With the development of the half tone process that allowed photographs to be printed on regular stock paper...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...his deep love for its people, its culture, and its political struggles are readily apparent in songs like "95 South: All of the Places We've Been," "Delta Man," "Angola," "Jose...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...performance styles of rock, pop, adult contemporary, heavy metal, and later, jazz, R&B, rap, hip-hop, and punk. In this way, CCM musicalized the desires of many conservative Christians to perceive...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...projects may take any of a number of forms. Please contact us if you have any questions about our process, infrastructure, or other aspects of digital project publishing. Southern Spaces editors are...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...patterns today called "Rob Peter to Pay Paul." These patterns became popular during the late-nineteenth century and were published under many names during the twentieth. The common element is the...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...six-pointed star pieced by hand from small fabric diamonds, a pattern that certainly predates the Civil War. However, the dyes that produced the red-brown and blue-green pieces in Rosa's pieced...
Piedmont Blues
Figure 2.1: The Piedmont. Map courtesy of James W. Clay and Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989.) Although the Piedmont plateau stretches from New...
The Chesapeake Bay
...regional effort to address the Bay's ecosystem started. The cooperative Chesapeake Bay Program partnership includes the Environmental Protection Agency, the states of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia,...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...by George N. Barnard. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/item/cwp2003005432/PP. Smith's sensory history of the Civil War brings a dramatic new perspective to bear on...