Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...shell, over an overgrown pond my spouse never even knew existed—where health officials deemed the water unsafe to fish or swim. Economics and social history shape the landscape, but because...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...County, Arkansas, born in 1894, set the bar even higher: We use to have to raise our living, can and preserve it for winter use. I was always glad when...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...user Ron Cogswell. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Middle, Woolworth's counter exhibit, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2012. Photograph by Flickr user Tim Bounds. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Bottom, Woolworth's Sit-In sculpture, Greensboro,...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Lee describes it, where the embellishments of the meeting house spill over to Sacred Harp. You add those extra notes on purpose, because it'd be mighty spare and dry without...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...mandated racially separate, unequal schools and where segregationists in the 1960s attempted to use private school vouchers to evade the watershed US Supreme Court decision. More than thirty-five states have...
California Creek, North Carolina
...what kind of emotions I'm gonna feel." Glyph constructed by Iktome, California Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. "From now on I'm gonna have this place where anybody...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...He pointed them toward me because my dissertation was on the Texas borderlands. I approached them with an idea for a project that became the Texas Slavery Project because I...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...(103). This multi-media interplay is a relatively new convention for academic writing. Here, old-school New Historicist methods comingle with explications of computer code and user interface to demonstrate how digital...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...North Carolina. White Plains Baptist Church, White Plains, North Carolina, November 10, 2007. Photograph by Flickr user Jimmy Emerson, DVM. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Like most family reunions,...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...as forty anti-Semitic groups operating in the South at the time of the black freedom struggle. Some of these organizations promoted their cause exclusively through propaganda. Others took more direct...