"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...of time and space, and functioned quite differently when considered in the varied political, social, economic, and racial contexts to which it was subject. To put it more simply, in...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...extensive demolition, has prevailed as an almost unassailable and foregone conclusion. In New Deal Ruins, political scientist Edward G. Goetz treats public housing differently. He tells a more complicated story:...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
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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]
...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
...Piedmont blues tradition. Piedmont blues' raggy, finger-picking guitar style is emulated by many Lower Chattahoochee blues artists, and many Piedmont blues tunes have become Lower Chattahoochee standards, including Blind Boy...
Failed Memory Exercise
...A place I can't forget, since its beams were ripped out, Numbered, and shipped east to some resurrection bistro Where one can cop a decent blintz and expresso now That...
The Chesapeake Bay
...society, especially Jamestown colony, has often been considered an aberration in the founding of the American colonies--materialistic, exploitative, company-driven, profit-seeking, competitive, and unreligious. Some scholars, notably Jack Greene, have argued...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...(15). Instead, they sought available lands deemed of "marginal economic value," "worthless for agriculture," that could be "purchased at a reasonable price" for Negro state parks (15). Many "Negro parks"...