Editorial Style Guide
...appears in running text as a noun. Reserve the abbreviation US when it is used adjectivally. US Supreme Court He is a resident of the United States. States: In running...
The Carolina Piedmont
...in these rural communities and nascent towns. "The Piedmont is another land," wrote North Carolina journalist Jonathan Daniels in 1939. "It has always been a more serious minded land. [It]...
A Mess of Poke
...sallet ("salad"), grows natively with astonishing vigor across the American South. Despite what Tony Joe suggests, however, pokeweed is not an exclusively rural species, in "the woods and the fields."...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...the elegant speakers at a "tea meeting" and the rough, mocking commentary on them by the "rude boys."3Roger D. Abrahams, The Man-of-Words in the West Indies:Performance and the Emergence of...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
Essay At historical plantation sites, where the subject of slavery is difficult to avoid, Park Service interpreters struggle to present the subject in the least offensive manner. Interpreters at Arlington...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together? Part 2: Womack analyzes Posey’s representation of the vexed relationships between Creeks and Freedmen in the Creek Confederacy...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...from mildly interested to fully engaged as Kee's powerful voice ripped through the speakers: "I'm going to run this race, if I go by myself," Kee sang as the choir...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...1940s, Gainey grew up poor and gay in rural South Carolina and attended Clemson University, where he studied ornamental horticulture. Using vernacular plants in classical garden design, he became a...
Theories of Time and Space
Video Theories of Time and Space You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been. Try this: head south...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Chapman. Courtesy of David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Looking at a community such as Santiago shows that the plantation was not...