The Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley Edward Beyer, Digital Restoration of "Harper's Ferry from Jefferson Rock" from Album of Virginia: Illustrations of the Old Dominion, 1858. The Shenandoah Valley's history marks it as...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...doubled, at once opening and closing, losing and then finding itself in its own cheap performance" (180). These kinds of juxtapositions are the crux of what Comentale identifies as "vernacular...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...turns out, the transfer of McDonald's son to Dinsmoor's care was not unique. In the decades following the US Revolution, a number of American Indian women and men and elite US whites...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...and current wealth, is taken from Chris Kromm, "The Art Pope Empire," Raleigh Indyweek, March 9, 2011, http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/the-art-pope-empire-media-outlets-think-tanks-and-election-machines; and Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis, "North Carolina's Tug of War," 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...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
Every week Miz Nell Weaver had us memorize a Bible verse, one for each letter of the alphabet. This was in the fourth grade, Centreville, Alabama, 1956. One by one,...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...by W.L. Shepard. Originally published in Harper's Weekly (January 1, 1881) XXV., No. 1253, 5. Image produced by ProQuest LLC as part of ProQuest® HarpWeek Archive. www.proquest.com. Image published with...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring, 162; "DDT Available for Civilian Use Early Next Week," Washington Post, July 27, 1945, 1. When Claxton residents saw...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Rainey in 1924.1Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, vocal performance of "See See Rider Blues" by Ma Rainey and Lena Arant, recorded October 16, 1924, by Paramount, catalogue number 12252, 78 rpm. With "Betty and Dupree,"...