John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...the 1950s and 1960s, the uncompromising polar opposite of popular culture circulating on the airwaves and in the magazines of urban and suburban America. If every aspect of 1950s American...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...in Washington, DC, Mildred and Richard decide, in violation of state law, to move back to Virginia with their three young children. They find a farmhouse. It has no telephone...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...of the Ohio, together numbered approximately one hundred thousand troops as they approached the city, but only about twenty-seven thousand of them fought in the Battle of Atlanta.11Woodworth, Nothing But...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Atlanta's history, politics, and the arts converge ... [They are] responsible for some of the most prominent aural and visual aesthetics that have come to define the South."1 Fahamu Pecou, phone...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...from Fauquier County, Virginia, sometime before 1800. A Baptist minister, he married a Miss Stringfellow, and they had eight children. Their son Silas was born in 1800. In 1825 Silas...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...disparate strands of evidence in Spanish, English, French, and indigenous language sources into a larger tapestry characterized by the irony of communication, she leaves a number of loose ends. Mentioning...
Cajun South Louisiana
...discovered shrimp and crawfish, making a compelling cuisine along the way. They came into a slave society, and after 1780 a significant number of them began to gain slaves. Most...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...to a nearby oil and gas field, the industry and state agencies expressed serious reservations. Jason P. Theriot's American Energy, Imperiled Coast chronicles the development of science and policy surrounding the...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...St. Augustine, Florida, stands the "old slave market," an open-air pavilion where enslaved Africans were bought and sold (Figures 1–3). Since its construction in the early nineteenth century, the waterfront...