Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...chair of the Department of Cultural, Gender, and Global Studies at Appalachian State University. He is author of Cyberspaces of Everyday Life (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006), which explores...
The Carolina Piedmont
...significant numbers. Enslaved African Americans made up ten percent of the Carolina Piedmont's population in the 1760s. By 1800, only two or three counties had black populations of more than...
A City Divided
...the progress of park-neighborhood buying and building. In one of his regular columns on "Atlanta Dirt," real-estate investor and agent George Adair described his drive through Ansley Park, noting its...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...unmistakable passion. The trial judge too, Curtis Swango, was mostly quite fair, according to contemporary accounts, black and white, northern and southern. That fairness is part of the tragedy too....
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...as the site of a resistant appropriation of the diaspora’s removal and as a site of repair. The piano keys appear in numerous other works, including Procession, but sheet music...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...21, General Mortimer Leggett's division of Blair's Corps, after a bitter struggle, captured the hill—later re-named Leggett's Hill—from a Confederate division under the command of General Patrick R. Cleburne of...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...chair at all meetings.5In 1919 this chair was donated to the church by the Reverend Sunday Fife. The back rows of the church are for the visitors and members. Jimmie...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...and New Mexico, 1800–1850 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 37. Wahlstrom's research makes clear that the US-Mexico War did not diminish economic and settlement patterns. Instead, ex-Confederate migration mapped...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...origin in a preexisting repertoire shared by both groups. Among those who moved west to the Chattahoochee Valley were Sacred Harp editors B.F. White and E.J. King. Born in 1800,...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...the convention. When yellow fever receded from northern port cities after 1800, “Charleston proved to be a better host than those places,” McCandless quips, “in part because it was warmer...