Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...census in DC, heading a household with two free non-white women and one free non-white man. He is not visible in the 1830 census. District of Columbia records list a...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...of the Year," reprinted from the Atlanta (GA) Journal in the Sun (New York, NY), Oct. 28, 1888, 5, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1888-10-28/ed-1/seq-5/. This "country animal has been a part of the south...
Deep Ellum Blues
...soon after the war, and settled in a variety of 'Freedmantowns' around the city. One of these Freedmantowns remained in the far north of the city in my own childhood...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...between Anglicans and the Presbyterians in the backcountry than about the Richardson marriage. He was resentful, for example, that one of his communion services was intentionally "interrupted by a Gang...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...an Understanding of Seeker Services as a New Kind of Liturgy," Worship 70, no. 5 [September, 1996]: 386–405). This model "avoided conventional church approaches, using . . . Sunday services...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...within 30 days," Herald-Sun [Durham, NC], 23 August 2004, B1; Eric Olson, "Probe traces drive-in fire to hot mower; Workers start collection to rebuild screen," Herald-Sun [Durham, NC], 24 August...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...refutes this claim. National Park Service, "Stephen Site Bulletin," www.nps.gov/maca/stephen.pdf. Here is Willis's oft-cited account of his first view of Stephen Bishop: The ladies of this party were talking with...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...to city, they offered a popular commemorative formula—"two brands of the same valor"—that attracted an enormous number of spectators.68Nivison, "Fields of Mighty Memory," 292. Over 286,000 paying customers viewed the...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...changes, along with newly revamped farms and numerous urban gardens, have contributed to a much-needed increase in the country's food supply since the early 1990s.11Lucy Martín, "Transforming the Cuban Countryside:...