Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...adopted by singing masters as other shape note songbooks appeared in the mid-Atlantic, midwestern, and southern states in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Singing schools and shape note...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...faculty in the office of faculty governance. Her publications include Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006). Whisnant is the scholarly advisor...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...organized by the American Missionary Association. Under his ministry, the church conducted a number of community programs: afternoon Sunday schools at missions throughout the city; a home for working girls;...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...the mission and history of American Memory. A simple search of the collections for the term "ybor" brings up maps, photos, texts (both original scans of contemporary documents and transcriptions...
Editors
...Father, and the Making of an American Icon (Basic Books, 2018); Strom Thurmond's America (Hill & Wang, 2012); and In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton University Press, 2007),...
Gone With the Wind
One night in 1940 my granddad slumped in the dark in the Princess Theatre, which is not here anymore, to watch Gone With the Wind, then watch it again, in...
Work
...room. My only factory stint. Never set foot in a towel mill. But that doesn't matter. I dreamed my mother's and grandmother's dreams. Dreams of clatter and snap, of doffers...
History: The Parlor
Mid-nineteenth-century homes included a formal parlor, sometimes described by social historians as a "sacred" space, where weddings, funerals, and other public events were held. In addition, larger houses, such...
Topeka newspapers
...big revolver and kept the Texans covered until the train reached Topeka... …Lewis is a resident of Wichita and a very respectable colored man. He is grand chancellor of the...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...that I cannot understand — rise in its indifferent passion. Published in Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 8-9. Published: 22 January 2009 © 2009...