Our Backward Revolution
...Port Royal Experiment: Rehearsal for Reconstruction. Rose tells the remarkable story of enslaved and subsequently free Black people living on the South Carolina Sea Islands who gained their freedom—and small...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...fat with congressional pork) oversaw the harbor's dredging, which continued for several years. Imposing steam-fueled engines churned the roots, sand and gravel over bulwarks, carving a fifteen-foot channel from the...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...but word spread and the next thing Cohen knew "two or three hundred students were showing up to sing with us on Friday nights."15Susan Montgomery, "The Folk Furor," Mademoiselle (December 1960): 100....
Religion and the US South
...experience as divinely sanctioned when under attack, and they repeatedly did so. Region also matters in understanding religion in the South because of the variety of regional contexts that have...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Norfolk, and Buxton, Iowa, congregated—sometimes along class lines, but always together," Earl Lewis argues. "In the southern context, congregation was important because it symbolized an act of free will, whereas segregation...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...fathers to sons and in the supposedly free exchange of affectional ties between a male and female of his choice—becomes the mythically revered privilege of a free and freed community"...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...represented by Margaret Sanger’s activism. In the 1920s and 1930s, however, medical professionals, eugenicists, and other birth control advocates—including Sanger—sought to establish birth control as a legitimate medical issue. Clarence...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...I guess...the ladies that were in there cooking, we were their entertainment….And so while they …cooked and bustled about the kitchen, Clarke and I sat there and sang from memory,...
Deep Ellum Blues
...soon after the war, and settled in a variety of 'Freedmantowns' around the city. One of these Freedmantowns remained in the far north of the city in my own childhood...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...out of the film. Here we include a chart. This web-based format gives more freedom to readers, viewers, and listeners. They can interact with the story in different ways—choosing their...