Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...devoted to ensuring that the names and relations of the makers would be remembered. The number of quilts and the care with which they were labeled suggests that she thought...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Atlanta's, but many other municipal codes are silent. A number of cities, towns, and counties are facing an unexpected ambiguity: if there is nothing on the books about chickens, is...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...in graduate school at the University of Illinois, attended a number of singings in his home state in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Encountering Wesleyan’s strong ethnomusicology program, Bruce...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...the public schoolchildren in twenty-one states were eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches, a benefit available only to families living in poverty or near-poverty. The report further documents that...
Brushes with War
...Oil on Canvas by Winslow Homer. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number 22.207. Edging past Homer's iconic sniper, visitors to the DC venue had plenty to see—a display of sixty...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...permanent (1565) European/African/Native American settlement on US territory. The inclusion of the forty–six free and enslaved Africans who arrived on Spanish ships at the first landing on August 28, 1565,...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...all Confederates.5Randall, Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln, 99. Military and federal authorities charged or indicted a significant number of former confederate leaders, including Jefferson Davis late in the Reconstruction era, but presidents...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...and a coalition of scientists and middle-class suburbanites, who pushed for the preservation of free-flowing streams. It also helps Manganiello demonstrate how recurring cycles of flooding and drought, abundance and...