Mississippi Delta
...an extensive flood control system. The New Deal introduced the most extensive federal government presence in the region since Reconstruction. Planters used New Deal appropriations to their advantage, accepting payments...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...into a more appropriate and useful channel."2Simpson, "Note to the Public," v–vi. Despite his groundbreaking creativity, Simpson is little known today. Few scholars have written about his work, and he...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...and the "Song Use in The Sacred Harp" statistics page on Fasola.org draw on the availability of the minutes in digital form to enable analysis of song use and leader...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...clarity, readability, richer multimedia, and a mobile-friendly responsive layout. The new site also introduces a dynamic, open source journal publishing platform constructed with the widely used Drupal 7 content management...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...Seaberg, Ronnog Seaberg, and J.B. Lenoir in the 1965 footage. The Soul of a Man, 2003. Documentary filmmakers have used reenactments since the genre's beginnings. In Nanook of the North...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
..."I don't think it really matters who shows up to speak," said Sam Walker, a Bridge Crossing organizer, "because this thing is bigger than any of us. It just keeps...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...to go to school with the Blacks because they are dirty!" "As a Black man I will join any group of oppressed people," he declared, "but when that group employs...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...indelible mark as a minister and social activist in service to marginalized people of every race, creed, and calling," Carter said. "He used the force of his words and the...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...churches also) were burned because they were the headquarters of the Union League and the general meeting places for Radical politicians," wrote Walter L. Fleming in 1905, "or because of...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...he would bear too soon the burden of standing in as the man of the house because of my grandfather’s incarceration. While Phương Anh was in the re-education camp, my...