Social Justice Environmentalism
...Carver (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011). African American hikers at Niagara Falls, ca. 1905. Photograph by Hamilton Sutton Smith. Courtesy of the Museum of African American History, Boston, Massachusetts....
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...different. Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South offers a fresh perspective on Native historiography and provides a framework for similar studies of political change via "colonial entanglement"...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...of the Los Angeles Ghetto, 1890-1930,"Pacific Historical Review 39:3 (August 1970): 323-352, 331. In Miami, another distinct blend formed, as African Americans with roots in the US South formed but...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...dance hall.67L. Blance Young to O.C. Wenger, February 8, 1932, Oliver C. Wenger Papers, Box 1, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Archives. Prostitution spreads Syphilis and Gonorrhea, ca. 1943....
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...American South. His numerous essays and reviews appear in such journals as the Southern Literary Journal, Southern Quarterly, Mississippi Quarterly, American Literature, Southern Studies, Studies in American Humor, American Quarterly,...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...22 apple trees; 10 cherry; 12 peach; 5 quince; 9 plum; 16 pear; 6 apricot; 16 crab-apple. We started by planting from seeds that I brought with me from home.44Erin...
Brushes with War
...and organized by Smithsonian Museum of American Art curator Eleanor Jones Harvey, "The Civil War and American Art" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) was an impressive exhibition. The...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
Review Edward Comentale's Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song is the latest work in a growing corpus of vernacular American music studies that seeks to understand the relationship...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...1932, 5; Sept. 8, 1932, 5; Dec. 21, 1933, 6; Feb. 3, 1938, 6; Feb. 17, 1938, 6; March 3, 1938, 5; April 7, 1938, 6; Dec. 13, 1939, 9;...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...1990), 153–162; 171–176. This musical culture subsequently spread across trans-Appalachia, and then later throughout the Midwest, Southwest, and, after the Great Migration of white southerners in the post–World War II...