Love and Death at Second-Line
...my memory was his warning about the unwritten rules of buying beer when the second-line had ended at Joe's. I now recall vividly speaking with and buying a beer from...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...North Carolina Growers Association had to buy into this or else we would have had a hard time making the documentary. They did buy into it because we met with...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...towns. Gentrification is occurring, but the area remains relatively cheap, isolated, hard to get to, and modest, especially outside the historic districts and areas close to campus. And somehow, within...
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...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Latino populations have been growing faster than in other areas of the country.7Richard Fry, Latino Settlement in the New Century, October 23, 2008 (Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center), http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/96.pdf. For...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
Review Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry, Cambridge University Press, 2011. In a few days, well before the first mosquito-killing frost reaches the South Carolina Lowcountry, I’ll head...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...History: By the mid-nineteenth century, the Carolina backcountry had been transformed from a sparsely populated region to an upcountry filled with established farms. The earliest quilts in the collection of...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...other places. in March, writes Kiri Miller, “has swelled to become one of the largest Sacred Harp gatherings in the country,” drawing as many as several hundred singers, an exceptional...
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...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...southern gospel, inspirational, and Christian country categories, and received a Grammy nomination in the Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album category. The Martins, From Arkansas With Love, early 1990s....