The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...and constructed over the airwaves an idealized aural representation of a southern Appalachian small town's culture. Rural Radio The introduction of radio into the rural United States in the 1920s...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
Review Although scholars of the African diaspora have long acknowledged the persistence of African cultural forms within the musical, material, and linguistic cultures of African Americans in the United States,...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...government executives, most notably the 45th President, who failed to respond effectively and exerted unprecedented political interference; (2) a legacy of outbreak responses in the United States that are highly...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...black republic might hold for the nearly four million people held in chattel bondage in the United States. The contention that "the fear of a revolt—or revolution—being mounted by the...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...seventy-five and one hundred Irish singers attended the Ireland Convention, joined by sizable groups of singers from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Poland, as well as a pair...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...public schools. These families can use the funds to send their children to almost any K–12 private school, including home-schooling, or purchase a wide range of educational materials and services,...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...Tinney, in turn, married Thomas W. Dyson (who previously served in the Civil War in Unit 1, First United States Colored Infantry) on March 11, 1867. The couple had at...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...She's testified before the US House of Representatives, the United States Commission on Civil Rights, the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and many other federal committees and agencies. She has...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...lower than the nationwide nonmetropolitan average. They also found, however, that the patterns of new migration strained local social services, especially educational services and housing, since these newcomers overwhelming rented...