Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...music includes unique performance practices. For example, all songs are sung loudly. Participants sing virtually at the top of their voices, though the falling and rising of the leader's arm...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Nova Scotia, the Acadians (Cajuns) were forced from their homes and the country, with a large contingent eventually settling in southern Louisiana. There they encountered—and intermixed with—other peoples of the...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...trade."10Bell, Major Butler's Legacy, 511. The advertisement that Bryan published in The Savannah Republican began on February 8 and ran daily, except on Sundays, through March 3, the last date...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
An Excerpt from the Introduction Cover image based on Tu lugar, 2006. Painting by Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy. Throughout the nineteenth century, aided by railroads and steam technologies, industrial plantations...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...in the center of the state, less than two hours from the Upstate area of Greenville and the growing suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Low Country, including Charleston....
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...colleagues, "is a process through which experience performing a task is converted into knowledge, which, in turn, changes the organization and affects its future performance."5Linda Argote, Sunkee Lee, and Jisoo...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...in the 1970s between the South and rest of the country. It was as if there was an intellectual iron curtain at the Mason-Dixon line. Ideas like bioregionalism were probably...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...the winter months, and invest their gains in labor-saving machinery, such as tractors. Between 1936 and 1941, the Bootheel's tenancy rate—which measured the number of those who did not own...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...the curious to explore. I felt as if I had set foot on an undiscovered country. Reading the pages that Raymond had written—holding them, perhaps the way he had held...