When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...young John developed a deep love for music, routinely spending hours at the family's Walter upright piano. "I was about seven years old when I started playing that piano, and...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Barnouw, Documentary: A History of the Non-fiction Film, second revised edition, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993): 48-51. then Flaherty was clearly taking another set of paths to understanding the "Quaint...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...the event. monthly performance event was held from February 2002 until December 2012, with a year-long, post-Katrina hiatus.23GRASSROOTS! was begun by Truth Universal in 2002 at the Neighborhood Gallery Theater...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...South Carolina. And, less than one century later, multiethnic towns would again extend across the South. In Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South, Robin Beck uses an...
The Shenandoah Valley
...hunt. To the east the Powhatan Confederacy loosely allied tribes in the upper coast plain. Scientists have characterized the Valley as a vast grass prairie in the early seventeenth century....
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...this map, click here. At the most distant zoom level, only Stevens mills with significant union action are labeled. The larger the marker the greater the number of employees and...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...We considered several people. An early title was The Strange Career of Jon Hinson based upon a US congressman from Mississippi who twice was caught in compromising situations and queer...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...other legal officers. The freedom that such adjudications yielded had a plurality of meanings, some of them contradictory and akin to subordination and dependence. Scholars of the early modern Atlantic...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...