Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...earned their subsistence until evicted from here. This sweep of black history at Arlington from 1802 to 1900 even offers surprises: a sister-in-law of Robert E. Lee was a freed...
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
...persona as the real Norma Rae and spoke across the United States, in Canada, and the Soviet Union. Since 1979, "Norma Rae" has become a title of sorts, bestowed on...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Movement at age thirteen, handing out leaflets during the Montgomery Bus Boycott under the direction of his pastor, Ralph David Abernathy. Taylor graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in...
On Fair Use
...higher education. The United States Copyright Office outlines its "fair use" policy in Section 107 of Title 17 of the United States Code, enumerating "various purposes for which the reproduction...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
Introduction Virginia Ward's yearbook photo, Pebblebrook High School, 1970. Virginia Ward is not a small woman, but the fineness of her hands and the way her gray curls sweep around...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...insists, it was not the River Jordan (69). Along with a multifaceted explanation of these complications, Salafia also offers a provocative meditation on the meanings of southern spaces, both physical...
The Shenandoah Valley
...Public Library Rare Books Division, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/af1f02d7-5641-ce42-e040-e00a18064e03. The creation of the national park was part of a long pattern of boosterism and economic development in the Valley, but it did herald...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...childhood experience in the Ozarks, but they usually bring a range of seeds, many of which are new to the region, and books on homesteading, organic gardening, and seed-saving, and...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Facebook, accessed March 8, 2011, https://www.facebook.com/groups/110889371183/ and the Facebook wall, accessed March 8, 2011, http://facebook.com/. The first instance of pan-European participation in a Sacred Harp convention, the Ireland Convention has...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...hierarchical relationships among towns based on tribute and surplus. He then offers two Spanish expeditions' (de Soto's and Juan Pardo's) interactions with large chiefdoms to illuminate the complex political landscape...