History: The Parlor
...machine during these evening gatherings would probably have been seen as disruptive in more traditional households. Women may have been more likely to use sewing machines during the day and...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...several days after the election. Nossiter, a normally sharp-eyed contributor on southern topics, focused on the low levels of white support for Obama in several Deep South states, and he...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...religious cultures and affect what Rey and Stepick identify as Haitian religion's ultimate concern: healing (14–15). On a more everyday level, "worth"—invisibly and materially—furnishes an individual and communal currency to...
The Bulletin—June 26, 2012
...the Justice Department to reject similar proposals in Texas and South Carolina earlier this year. The US Supreme Court handed down a ruling yesterday in the case of Fletcher v....
"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
...celebrate journalist Johnny Popham's seventy-fifth birthday. John Egerton, a journalist and scholar who has written about southern race relations, education, and food wrote this unpublished manuscript in 1987 detailing the 1985...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...get to use in today's world. But the word that comes to this driver's mind is slow. I feel it immediately as I enter the roadway—not only my car decelerating...
Traveling Richmond at night, Richmond, Virginia, 2009
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...quickly. A neighbor witnessed the sheriff's office posting the eviction notice on their door one morning while she was out walking. Not more than three or four days later, they...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...in the competition. A joint investigation by National Public Radio and the Center for Public Integrity released in two parts (part one yesterday and part two today) this week suggests...
Murray Mountain, North Carolina
...days it was going to be a school bus with our children. So we agree 100% that something needed to be done. All those tractor-trailers on that mountain is just...