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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...genres, etc. Radio and television stations and musicians playing live on the radio Material culture relating to musics of the US South and its regions Recording companies and recording studios...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...star are among the most recognizable of the chemical dyes that became widely available during the 1870s. It is quite likely that Rosa Snoddy pieced the star, but she would...
Piedmont Blues
...one hundred miles wide. "Among the rolling hills, small farms, mills, and coal and railroad camps of the rural East Coast Piedmont, between Tidewater coast and the Appalachian Mountains of...
Failed Memory Exercise
...a block of stores Like a test for names, beginning with the P.O., By which, in late autumn, the loaded wagons came, The colts wheeling behind the great sober mares,...
The Chesapeake Bay
...century. They often saw the region as a "wilderness, as God first ordained it." They were struck by the forests especially and the density of foliage, and like most Englishmen...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...Battle of Gettysburg, documented by the new technology of photography. The sensation that made the most lasting impression, however, was not that of sight but of stench. As one female...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...as a diaspora. At the heart of the story of the Cherokee diaspora sit the brute facts that they lost most of their ancestral homeland, were driven by force of...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...Providing black citizens separate spaces that approximated the outdoor experiences whites enjoyed at coastal beaches, interior lakes, and mountain parks was a practical impossibility. Even modest attempts by state and...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/13/more-than-just-another-gay-club-pulse-was-founded-in-her-brothers-memory-and-named-for-his-beating-heart/; Anna Codrea-Rado, "The Little Known Story of Pulse, an Orlando Nightclub Founded on Love," Thump, June 13, 2016, https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/pulse-orlando-nightclub-history-feature. Pulse, then, has always served to connect queer communities across...