The Border South
...if not its outright commitment to the Union, essential for both military and political reasons. Throughout the war Lincoln worked to peel off Border South Unionists and encourage them to...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...have them condemned again to lives as slaves. (Salafia doesn't follow through with Garner's subsequent trial, a missed opportunity, given what it revealed about the ambivalence of regional racial attitudes...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...sort that might have carried Jews to the camps; similarly several museum renditions of the Middle Passage move visitors through recreations of the holds of slave ships.6Oren Baruch Stier, “Different...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...or too infirm to labor. By January 1864, dwellings had been constructed along with a church, hospital, and home for the aged—all aligned on well laid-out streets with a park...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...or privy to, the social lives of her children, who came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s. From Sibley's semi*]}*-autobiographical novel Children, My Children and her granddaughter...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...the demolition of East Lake Meadows in 1995 and the construction of quality mixed-income town homes, apartments, a YMCA, and a charter school. Urban renewal and gentrification have substantially changed...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...Gaffney, "As Black Lung Strikes Younger Coal Miners, Kentucky Restricts Medical Benefits," NRDC, September 24, 2018, accessed September 29, 2018, https://www.nrdc.org/stories/black-lung-strikes-younger-coal-miners-kentucky-restricts-medical-benefits. Apart from such individual physicians' political and medical predispositions, however,...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...and it's—how can I put this?—you can work on a short story sentence by sentence almost the way you work on a poem. And you can micromanage it. You can...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...catalyzed reciprocal travel among fledgling Sacred Harp singing groups in Europe. Reciprocal travel, which helped sustain a plethora of rural southern singings in the wake of massive out-migration during the...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...of the contemporary "Big Minutes," see Judy Caudle, et al., eds., "Minutes and Directory of Sacred Harp Singings," Fasola.org, http://fasola.org/minutes/. Projects such as the FaSoLa Minutes iOS and Android app...