The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...war, the number of cities and towns with local radio service doubled.15Ibid. AM 1450 WLAF in LaFollette, Tennessee, took to the airwaves in 1953 and, for the first time, provided...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...a tradition. We heard blues on Beale Street and took part in lectures and discussions in Oxford, Mississippi, before visiting with racial reconciliation leaders in Jackson and the Delta. Ruth...
The Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley Edward Beyer, Digital Restoration of "Harper's Ferry from Jefferson Rock" from Album of Virginia: Illustrations of the Old Dominion, 1858. The Shenandoah Valley's history marks it as...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Bridge and Sophie Watson (Malden MA: Blackwell Pub, 2000). Latino immigrants began arriving in Memphis in large numbers during the 1990s, drawn by jobs in the city’s burgeoning construction and...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...mother Matilda Teney. The 1800 census indicates that the household of Charles Teney in the District of Columbia consisted of fourteen free persons, all of them non-white, and one enslaved. Charles...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...I interviewed his former agent, Susan Ann Protter, as well as his editors, Juris Jurjevics and Dr. Emily Wright. In addition to Benny, I talked with his siblings, Shirley Andrews...
The Carolina Piedmont
...significant numbers. Enslaved African Americans made up ten percent of the Carolina Piedmont's population in the 1760s. By 1800, only two or three counties had black populations of more than...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...content. With the increasing number of multimedia articles and features, we standardized the organization of pieces to enhance accessibility. We shifted from pieces with numerous pages to scroll-down navigation. These...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...manner to healing the loss and suffering that this great catastrophe entailed. Since I had been photographing in the state of Mississippi for over twelve years (mostly in the Delta...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...spheres of independence that offered opportunities and careers. In 1965 the Negro Extension Service was integrated into white land grant schools, and black county agents and demonstration agents were assigned...