Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...Nannie's Cross quilts [see Laurel Horton, Mary Black's Family Quilts]. The brown print that cradles this circle-in-a-square is a brown print that is similar, but not identical, to prints in...
Piedmont Blues
...improvising tirelessly in several keys. Growing up in South Carolina, he learned from the blind guitarist Willie Walker. He taught Blind Boy Fuller and at some time in the 1930s...
Failed Memory Exercise
...I bump awake over the Atlantic Or wait in the plant-hung lobby of a hotel In Atlanta or Montreal and answer then, though I do not know the nature of...
The Chesapeake Bay
...know that Paleo-Indians hunted in what is now the offshore Atlantic coast since fishermen have recently found Paleo-Indian hunting implements and the remains of extinct species. About 4,500 years ago,...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...of many insights into, for example, military tactics, survival strategies, and commemorative practices. In "The Sounds of Secession," Smith invites readers to listen in to transformations in the Charleston soundscape...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Cherokee sensibilities, tohi and osi, which embody notions of flow, equanimity, and power. An individual's actions always implicate him or her in the flow of the world, posing a constant...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...and designed to engineer inequality. This included the "Great Outdoors." In Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South, a fascinating, deeply researched, and richly illustrated...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...notwithstanding, HyperCities is an important contribution to geospatial inquiry in the digital humanities. It models collaborative work with GIS, and it gestures toward future projects in which scholars might combine...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...section. The published version, however, is in 4/4 throughout, which in The Sacred Harp indicates a moderate tempo (itself different from the version Brittain submitted, which was in 2/2 throughout...
Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
...on Carroll Street. Although it's difficult to determine the exact location of the shop from the contextual information contained within the image it's safe to say that it was very...