Writing Appalachia
...and His Homeland (1921); Henry Glassie, Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States (1968); Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov, The Upland South: The Making of an American Folk...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...of traditional Texanness and modern liberalism" (163). Playing the part of the manly, uncouth Texan, LBJ signed crucial legislation of the civil rights era while stubbornly insisting that the United...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...driven around where the marchers had gathered, in silent support. "Five or 10 years ago nobody would have suspected this," Bill said.2United Press International, "50 in Atlanta Mark Gay Liberation...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...the United States and the Creek Nation references the "Ulcofauhatche" river; the term was used through the nineteenth century and was later anglicized to the "Alcovy" River. RaeLynn A. Butler,...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
..."Ballad of Thunder Road" written and recorded by Robert Mitchum. Audio Samples Like much of the United States, the South became increasingly car-centered in the second half...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...the speech of Hon. Henry R. Jackson of Savannah, Ga., (Atlanta: E. Holland, 1891). The last documented shipment of enslaved Africans brought to the United States was disembarked at Mobile,...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...forty years to overturn the Brown decision. School Choice Programs in the United States, 2019. Map by Steve Suitts. Courtesy of the Southern Education Foundation. In the short run, the...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...sing to heal the language of its long service as a tool. Greatest of the fingerpickers, lost in dark mud, I do not know about the god of the fathers,...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...advertised his cleaning and repair service: "Bring in your sewing machines and have them made good as new." The fabric on the back of the Tulip quilt is a fine...
Birmingham, Alabama images
...1963-- shortly before morning services were to begin--the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four African American girls. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton...