Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
Introduction On a warm Saturday in early summer, a crowd gathers at a white-washed church in rural Alabama. As they begin to sing, a sound rises that is overwhelming in...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...origin in a preexisting repertoire shared by both groups. Among those who moved west to the Chattahoochee Valley were Sacred Harp editors B.F. White and E.J. King. Born in 1800,...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
Introduction Figures 1–3. Holly Goldstein, Public Market in the Plaza de la Constitución, three views, St. Augustine, Florida, 2012. Figure 1. View from behind and left. Figure 2. View from...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...the convention. When yellow fever receded from northern port cities after 1800, “Charleston proved to be a better host than those places,” McCandless quips, “in part because it was warmer...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
Review The present system of flood control in the Mississippi Valley is a compromise resulting from a long and complicated interplay among interest groups. The current solution to the problem...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
Review In this impressive volume edited by Cécile Vidal a collection of historians seek to recover a "marginalized" past (16) within American history. Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...nonwhites from the record. Regardless of his singular focus, Jennison makes clear that by 1800, Georgia's conservative revolutionaries could broaden their perspective when confronted by the distressing message, reach, and...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
Introduction: Shooting the Chutes at Early American Amusement Parks Lakewood Park's Shoot-the-Chutes, Atlanta, Georgia, ca. 1895. "The Shoot-the-Chutes ride at Lakewood Park was originally at the Atlanta International Cotton States...
The Chesapeake Bay
Introduction The Chesapeake Bay's environmental history is complex and well-documented. Over four-hundred years of textual records document the Bay's environmental history, and over ten-thousand years of archaeological, geological, and biological...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
Review Any historical account requires a framing device—temporal, thematic, or geographical—establishing the scope of enquiry. A Caribbean history typically invokes fairly settled geographical parameters that delimit the area to insular...