John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...because he wanted recognition for his music but because he believed Cohen truly appreciated it and that the younger musician might help him get a job. Still of Roscoe Holcomb...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...woman in that county.60Brooks Miles Barnes, The Gallows on the Marsh: Crime and Punishment on the Chesapeake, 1906 (Eastville, Va.: Hickory House, forthcoming). African-American migration onto the Eastern Shore picked...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Hurt House. Logan's troops are shown forcing a mid-battle retreat of Confederate infantry units sent forward by their commanding general, John Bell Hood. The Confederate Army of Tennessee's setbacks at...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Land Lottery Register, 250. Ross's Head of Coosa possessions included his two-story house, sixty-five acres of cultivated fields, a kitchen, work house, smoke house, blacksmith shop, wagon house, stables, slave...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...the city because, according to a woman Sibley knew, "'Hit's too fur to walk and cars jiggle you so bad.'"13Sibley, A Place Called Sweet Apple, 57-58; Sibley, Tokens of Myself, 15. (This...
Editorial Style Guide
...Manual of Style. The journal uses Webster's Dictionary as arbiter for spelling and definitions. Punctuation and capitalization Abbreviations For plurals of abbreviations, use an apostrophe before the s if the...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
Introduction What role does cruising play in marking specific areas of the urban landscape as "queer territory"?1For the purposes of this essay, I use the word "queer" primarily in its...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...few years later. See "Sitton House," Pendleton, City Profile, accessed July 20, 2022, https://www.cityprofile.com/south-carolina/sitton-house.html. By 1849, the Pendleton Post Office was officially situated in the Farmers Hall building on the Green. A...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...shell, over an overgrown pond my spouse never even knew existed—where health officials deemed the water unsafe to fish or swim. Economics and social history shape the landscape, but because...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...County, Arkansas, born in 1894, set the bar even higher: We use to have to raise our living, can and preserve it for winter use. I was always glad when...