Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...Pentecostal to Baptist. https://vimeo.com/478204922/75a8c14d45 John P. Kee and The New Life Community Choir performing "Lily in the Valley." From Lily in the Valley (1993). Especially down south, Kee's blue-collar aesthetic...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...though overall values appreciated, in 1970 the median value of an owner-occupied unit in Census Tract 8 was 67 percent of the city average; by 1976 the median value was...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...theorization becomes most apparent where Dubcovsky vacillates between the historiographically loaded term—the “South”—and la tierra adentro. Dubcovsky devotes only a paragraph to explicating the decision to use "early South" to...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...various species and how to maintain pure seed varieties. Specifically she indicates that because she has more than one corn variety in her field she must separate them to prevent...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...was a common situation throughout the antebellum South. Thomas Jefferson may be the most famous transgressor with Sally Hemings, but he had company. Historians place the number of mulattoes in...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...and Foodways from the Slave Narratives (Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Press, 2009). Literary scholar David S. Shields discusses the appearance of roasted opossum on a hotel menu in "Possum in...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...in Washington, DC, Mildred and Richard decide, in violation of state law, to move back to Virginia with their three young children. They find a farmhouse. It has no telephone...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...first of two late-1950s appearances at the festival by the Hoboken group and the only one recorded. The 1958 recording is a sonic benchmark in this local variant of Sacred...