Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...an official in Middlesex County conveyed to the Bureau's assistant commissioner for the state, Colonel Orlando Brown, his approval that freedpeople would receive state sanction for marriage; he hoped, however,...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...as the Danville Bee and Danville Register, characterized SNCC's activities in Danville as detrimental to the otherwise harmonious relations between local blacks and whites. They also reinforced city officials' views...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...during the civil rights movement. Banner from the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride website, 2003. How do we make sense of these entanglements of a South contoured by a historical black-white...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...diverse range of wealth, education, and influence, during the age of Jacksonian democracy” (11). He characterizes the early singing schools and conventions less as sites of cultural preservation than events...
Encountering COVID
...was really impacted our healthcare workers and public health officials. I interviewed people who had significant responsibilities, including top public health officials in major metropolitan areas, and they stepped away or are in...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of the University of North Carolina yearbook, Pine Needles. During Gwen Jones's college years, 1959–1963, Greensboro was a center of civil rights activities, best known as the site of the...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...Spaces would become a site for training graduate students in digital publishing. And that, where possible, we would collaborate with small non-profit organizations engaged in regional research and education that...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...officials and, particularly, an ambitious northern Mexican commercial class to attract US settlement and trade during the first half of the nineteenth century.5Andrés Reséndez, Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...singing, despite the lack of official denominational support. Sacred Harp found a special ally in the Primitive Baptists who resisted the modernization of church music (Cobb 1989, 5). To this...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...small crosses constructed on site from pieces of scrap lathe or metal and roughly hand painted with the name of the deceased. Others may be prefabricated in a home workshop,...