Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...an Indian named Pentocolo, for example, operated simultaneously as a "Spanish ally and an English sympathizer" (143). Overview map of the Yamasee War, June 29, 2007. Map by Pfly. Courtesy...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...in the Knoxville Journal. An estimated 75 to 100 sticks of dynamite exploded throughout Clinton High School in the early morning of Sunday, October 5, 1958, over two years after...
Genres of Southern Literature
...the last half-century, although critics have disagreed vigorously over where to look for the distinguishing conventions that allow the assignment of genre identification to texts. In today's critical climate we...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...His television show, broadcast every Saturday, resembled Philadelphia's Bandstand, at the time a local program hosted by Bob Horn, and other locally broadcast teenage dance programs. The Mitch Thomas Show stood out because...
Religion and the US South
...their failures. Religious institutions declared days of fasting and thanksgiving to encourage understanding of the spiritual nature of the war. Ministers cared for soldiers, preached revivals, led prayer groups, and...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
Preface On a muggy Sunday afternoon in June of 1959, John Cohen wandered the winding mountain roads of eastern Kentucky searching for old-time musicians. Neon, Bulan, Vicco, Viper, Daisy, Defiance...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...day," Ward remembered, "he'd sit behind me in class. Every day he call me nigger. Every day, every day." She was recalling the student who dedicated himself to taunting her—quietly...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...in America. https://vimeo.com/478092922/d9ece1993b Donald Lawrence and the Tri-City Singers performing "When Sunday Comes." From Bible Stories (1995). For many of the artists in When Sunday Comes, singing gospel was not...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...which represent places in the US South—have become seared into the southern imaginary. Calling up associations of segregation and depression-era rural poverty, the photographs both tie the present-day South to...