The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...that “contributed to ‘breaking the bonds of custom, offering new experiences, calling out new institutions and activities’” (11, quoting Turner, 1920). The backdrop to The Sacred Harp’s emergence is not...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...News, February 3, 1955, 3; "South Carolina," Southern School News, March 3, 1955, 14; "South Carolina," Southern School News, July 1955, 4. Even bills proposing confrontational tactics, such as closing...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...eds., Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860–1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999), 639. Despite several battlefield setbacks, most severely at Kennesaw Mountain on...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...1,438 rolls, source consulted: s.v. P. Cleveland, 1860 United States Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Albemarle County, Virginia, http://www.ancestry.com/; P. Cleveland to [Thomas P. Jackson], May 6, 1867, Valley of the...
Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
...57.10 11,270 39.91 Early 6,212 50.28 5,947 48.14 Harris 18,584 78.43 4,614 19.47 Marion 4,347 60.85 2,434 34.07 Muscogee 93,936 50.42 81,488 43.74 Quitman 1,354 52.12 1,218 46.88 Randolph 3,034...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...Amberg. Grapevine, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Grapevine, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Chestnut tree stump on the I-26 right-of-way, Sprinkle Creek,...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...a plundered burial site near Covington (Macon Telegraph, 16 March 1894, p. 4). The individual in question, Woodson D. Boggus (c. 1868–1936), worked in the early twentieth century in Waco,...
The Carolina Piedmont
...of survival. The Catawba formed alliances and turned to trade with tribes further west. Many Cherokee, after efforts at openness in commercial and social contact, withdrew into the Appalachians in...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...Benson, ca. 1850, 96 X 85 inches. Cotton fabrics, moderately thick cotton batting, backed with plain white sheeting. Quilted by hand in diagonal crosshatch. Bound by turning backing to front....
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...is part of such an effort. It seeks to clarify terms, narrate critical developments, define issues, and identify relevant sources of information.The focus of this research guide is the African...