"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Lounge Fire Killed 32 People. Its Legacy Still Haunts Black Gay New Orleans," The Daily Beast, May 13, 2019, https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-upstairs-lounge-fire-killed-32-people-its-legacy-still-haunts-black-gay-ne. Gay communities are hardly immune to the racism and sexism...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...gain widespread use until the 1980s. Before then the music was simply known to its practitioners and fans as gospel."6Not that "southern gospel" never made an appearance before the 1970s...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...is more comprehensive because it explicitly links the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions with the objective of fixing social problems. It proposes concrete policies to bring solutions to three fundamental...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...Fontaine Maury (scientist and naval officer from Virginia) and former Louisiana governor Henry Watkins Allen (12, 22). Wahlstrom revises earlier histories, engaging Andrew Rolle's The Lost Cause: The Confederate Exodus to...
Hurricane Paths, Eastern Shore and Vicinity, 1872-1928
first image title Hurricane paths, eastern shore and vicinity, 1872 second image title Hurricane paths, eastern shore and vicinity, 1874 Hurricane paths, eastern shore and vicinity, 1877 Hurricane paths, eastern...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...workers when their "womanly troubles" required more frequent visits; how the company passed them over for promotions and raises because of their sex or race or both. Lucy Taylor's husband...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...reconstruct Bishop and other cave guides as avatars of slave self-empowerment. While these historical figures found ways of confusing the behavioral codes of slavery in their everyday interactions with cave...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...few years later. See "Sitton House," Pendleton, City Profile, accessed July 20, 2022, https://www.cityprofile.com/south-carolina/sitton-house.html. By 1849, the Pendleton Post Office was officially situated in the Farmers Hall building on the Green. A...
A City Divided
...(though obviously these codes could and were violated).9On racial social codes, see Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New York: Knopf, 1998). Perhaps the mixed-race, mixed...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...to institutions with long histories of community-building through arts activism and education. In this spirit, we hosted one of our first LiFT gatherings in the Hammonds House Museum. Founded in 1988, the Hammonds House...