Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...century. A fragment dating from about 1750, found at a Charleston archeological site, is the earliest evidence of the tens of thousands of bandannas imported into this country. By the...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...to Ponce de Leon springs and a circuit was built through the country connecting with the Highland Avenue and Edgewood extensions. It was known as the nine-mile circuit and has...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...to invite law-abiding, longtime residents of the United States to earn their citizenship in the country that many of our ancestors abandoned and attacked with no lasting penalty. About the...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...country and the subsequent development of New Orleans' own distinct sound, importantly asserting that the development of a local and particular rap sensibility began largely with nightclub and block party...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
Debby Holcombe, Cover of booklet for "Georgia Harmonies: Celebrating Georgia Roots Music," 2012. Image courtesy of the Center for Public History, University of West Georgia. On April 14, the exhibition...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...this event has not been repeated. Less prominent auctions and events from the slave trade and slavery times continue to be reenacted around the country. In Selma, Alabama, community activist...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
Introduction Map of Major Indian Tribes in the "South,"circa 1750 I borrow only my title from Alfred Kazin's 1942 study On Native Grounds, an influential reading of modern American prose...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...2006 far below fifty percent. Elsewhere in the country, only three states—New Mexico, California, and Oregon—had a majority of low-income students. Given recent trends, however, public schools in the western...
Mapping Souths
...closely sealed off from the North geographically, nor a moral unity. It is not a country at all, but a battle slogan.2Karl Marx, "The Civil War in the United States,"...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...used to defend the violence, and the tragic resonance of the violence. Pieced together, these local studies provide a mosaic that illustrates the tragedy of lynching in this country. Up...