Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...'Airs,'" writes Simpson, "I have gathered such as are popular, and extensively known. Many superstitious persons, and perhaps many good conscientious, well-meaning Christians, will denounce and reject the work on...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...area because the new road is one way of getting from Johnson City to Asheville as fast as you can. The people that are passing this road (Highway 23) right...
Artist Repertoire Index
...Studying As the Time Roll On Strutting That Thing Tin Top Alley (Yonder Goes My Baby) Warren, J.W. (1981, 1982) Blue Hawaii Careless Love Corrinna Highway 51 Hoboing My Way...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...blunt, sometimes opaque, but deeply moving, reinterpretation of the experience of the war in Virginia. The highlight for any visitor is likely to be the first-person, three-dimensional visual simulation of...
Regions of Alabama
...of place to "Alabamians," highlighting the good and bad of provincialism Part 4: Dr. Flynt explores the failure of Alabama's political leadership About the Speaker Wayne Flynt, Distinguished University Professor...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Goetz, "displaced an estimated one million people from the time of its enactment in 1949 to 1965… So, too, the development of the interstate highway system, as it carved its...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...of East and West Florida (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999). The Dutch-Anglo-American Romans—like many of the other largely forgotten figures whose stories Strang tells so vividly—turned his local knowledge...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...the World Health Organization downgraded the coronavirus emergency from a global health pandemic to an "ongoing health crisis," the shift made sense in many ways. Most developed nations have made...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...selected extension and home demonstration agents, controlled information, adjusted acreage allotments, disbursed loans, adjudicated disputes, and, in many cases, looked after family and friends. County administrators had enormous discretion in...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...since the 1970s, spreading to the United Kingdom and Canada in the mid-1990s, and then to Poland, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, and the Czech Republic since 2008. Many participants in...