Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...behind the article encompassed many other voices and viewpoints. The song leaders and singing school teachers in this tradition, however, always played central shaping roles, and David Lee is an...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...number of mothers, fathers, uncles, and aunts to send children to live in the United States. The women and men who placed their children within US slaveholding households acted in ways...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Religion and the US South
...ways exercised their spiritual gifts in unprecedented ways. Evangelicals insisted that converts take up the cross of Jesus, sometimes alienating not only planters but plain folk men with their radical...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
The Carolina Piedmont
...State government interests and initiatives complemented those of the "economic oligarchy." Networks of railways, paved roads that grew into highways, and electric power lines tied together countryside, town, and city....
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...Turn-of-the Century Chicago (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1998), 138. Filled with newfangled rides and novel attractions, these parks drew an assortment of patrons searching for new ways to...
The Shenandoah Valley
...part of Warren County, Virginia (1866). Courtesy of Flickr user Norman B. Leventhal Map Center. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. If the Valley had always been an avenue of...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...each other. In my memory, the weight of the air on summer nights made possibility seem like a substance I could hold in my hand. Always, local bands played and...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...or in any other ways that black and white subjects were referred to on the air. These long-format news shows revealed powerful arguments for desegregation from articulate and compelling African...