Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...to test newly upheld federal prohibitions against segregation in interstate transportation. The CORE-sponsored rides were part of a months-long series of protests that stretched from diverse locales, including Washington, DC,...
And the Prize Goes to...
...Four of the seventeen participants were graduate students; the remaining were advanced undergraduates. Along with their interest in southern studies, they brought specializations in American studies, journalism, English, history, philosophy,...
Single Centers of Creation?
...Salamander Eurycea l. longicauda Long-tailed Salamander [SC] Stereochilus marginatus Many-lined Salamander Pseudotriton montanus diastictus Midland Mud Salamander Plethodon mississippi Mississippi Slimy Salamander Pseudotriton montanus Mud Salamander Desmognathus fuscus* Northern Dusky...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...of seam allowances to both the concave and convex parts of the quilt pattern results in two curved edges that no longer match. The maker could still place the templates...
Piedmont Blues
...Cephas. Baker's grandfather was a banjo player who loved breakdowns and waltzes. Her father taught her the blues along with parlor music, hymns, and Tin Pan Alley songs of the...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...William Faulkner. Among a host of contributions to any number of scholarly debates, Wise's crisp and clear articulation of Percy's views of love and sexuality will attract the attention of...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...for a number of months at Arlington House, explained that visitors sometimes took her aside to ask in hushed tones, "Were there really slaves here?" She also observed that some...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...job-training and long-term job placement have much higher degrees of success. The route an inmate takes at the time of release often depends on the prison in which he or...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...Confederates and northerners sought to claim the popular song and invest it with different nationalistic and local meanings. Originally written as a minstrel song expressing an ambivalent longing for the...
The Border South
...complexity of life on the border. The idea of a border depends in large measure on a "closed" South, one sealed by a definitive geography or polity. Along the border...