The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
Essay At historical plantation sites, where the subject of slavery is difficult to avoid, Park Service interpreters struggle to present the subject in the least offensive manner. Interpreters at Arlington...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...anything and everything that had to do with feminism and lesbianism—in fact, they remembered being "hungry" for this material. Chris Carroll said she thinks this was because woman- and lesbian-oriented...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...of Congress. Image provided by the author. Black cartographers have long responded to this dialectic of spectacular presence and invisible subjugation that runs through cartographic renderings of Black spaces and...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together? Part 2: Womack analyzes Posey’s representation of the vexed relationships between Creeks and Freedmen in the Creek Confederacy...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...76.1 50.0 % Change, 1990–2006 -9.5 -3.5 * Sources: US Census Bureau, "Demographic Profile Highlights," American FactFinder (Washington, DC, 2000), accessed January 16, 2011, http://factfinder.census.gov/legacy/aff_sunset.html. Data for United States; Columbia,...
Country Music Scholar
...honky tonk of the oil boom with older Appalachian music Part 4: Malone discusses the commercialization of rural southern music first as “hillbilly” and later as “country” Part 5: Malone discusses relationships...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...120] Whether or not the handkerchiefs in Rosa's quilt were products of this local factory, similar bandannas would have been widely available in local stores. Construction: Rosa Benson Snoddy framed...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...is a rural, agricultural county located in mountainous, northwestern North Carolina. Throughout its history, the county's rugged terrain has prevented easy access to outlying cities such as Asheville or Knoxville....
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...a Decatur, Georgia, all-day singing, we recorded three hours of the annual singing at Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church in rural Fayette County in west Alabama. This lively, midsize singing is...
Single Centers of Creation?
...Black Mountain Salamander Desmognathus quadramaculatus Black-bellied Salamander Pseudotriton ruber schencki Black-chinned Red Salamander Desmognathus orestes Blue Ridge Dusky Salamander Pseudotriton ruber nitidus Blue Ridge Red Salamander Gyrinophilus porphyriticus danielsi* Blue...