Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...number of short pieces are joined to augment the width, and one of these has a small irregular patch, suggesting mending of some previous damage. The backing was still too...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...about runaway slaves. While most databases do not yet provide features like transcripts, there are a number of useful tools available for researchers and students. UNCG has created the Digital...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...with a token number of Black students to deflect federal scrutiny, and that increasingly professed nonracial reasons for their practices, often citing religion. Many headmasters of the “segregation academies” by...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...transatlantic slave trade, Eltis has been instrumental to this effort. Through information on the years, ships, numbers of captive Africans delivered, and embarkation and disembarkation locations obtained from Voyages, the...
Writing Appalachia
...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...
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...
Image Credits
...BY 2.0. Change Bayard Rustin, October 17, 2010. Drawing by Flickr user Topher McCullogh. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Love Burning Man, Corpus Christi. Mixed-media painting by Eric Solomon....
Just as Sure
...Couldn't deny they shared faces. We buried Daddy in '53. They finished the dam, backed up the Oconee that year to make power. They made a lake, changed the town....
Fort Scott newspapers
...state of the case may be changed, we doubt if it is, and it will be shown that May was assaulted and shot, and wrested the pistol from his assailant...
Substantiation
...Farm where guards rifle from the woods. A change at the Eavesdrop Inn then he's bent picking cotton in a field. Come sundown, he hobos Sumner way and squats at...