Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...from the tourists who stream up the hill to the Kennedy gravesite and the Arlington House. Breaking the contemplative quiet are the occasional maintenance vehicles that keep the cemetery pristine,...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...for this job. The people go out and fast and pray and look for a sign in a dream or some spiritual way. One the eighth Sunday, the pastor asks...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...a training site near Anniston. By the early 1960s, the Army's entire Chemical-Biological-Radiological Corps Command was moved to Anniston, and the site also became home to a chemical weapons storage...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...More broadly, the film engages with the intertwined histories of Scottish Congregational line song, African American spirituals, and Muscogee (Creek) songs. Black spirituals and Muscogee hymns draw upon congregational line...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...coast, and across the Gulf of Mexico from Mississippi to New Orleans. Blacks regarded these communities as vital sites of leisure, relief from wage labor, business opportunities, and—even if too...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...diverse range of wealth, education, and influence, during the age of Jacksonian democracy” (11). He characterizes the early singing schools and conventions less as sites of cultural preservation than events...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...Collapsable side navigation menu with recent photo essays highlighted. Screen capture of the new Southern Spaces site courtesy of Southern Spaces. Our new site's design embraces a streamlined, minimal aesthetic uncommon in digital...
The Liminal Site
...the start, and quite unavoidably (given the glory of the site), I imagined my garden as site-specific art, a celebration of both place and space. What I wanted—my wife, far...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...than living Black people. In several states polling officials were all white, and ballots were numbered in such a way as to permit white officials to know how Black voters...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...state against the influences of an increasingly sexualized national culture through official and unofficial censorship boards, namely Atlanta film censor, Christine Smith (later Gilliam) and the Georgia Literature Commission, led...