Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...unique that, according to Cobb, the prospects for "consolidation" with white singers are slim (Cobb 1989, 6). Even among white singers united by the use of the Denson book, stylistic...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...repositories of Africana art, as places of historical significance in their own right, and as places and resources for Africana art making and creativity. Africana archives in the United States...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...who, like the Mims, were directly affected by the town's chemical dramas, serves as a powerful "argument for reforming how we manufacture, use, and regulate toxic chemicals in the United...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...continental United States. From their arrival on the banks of North America's greatest river and its tributaries, European and American settlers realized that economic development in the flood-prone region would...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...of revolutions abroad as well as internal migrations in the United States would continue to fragment and frustrate the settling of Georgia's backcountry and residents' sense of self and citizenship....
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...virus spread throughout Mexico, and subsequently the world. The United States media labeled the strain the "swine flu" or "Mexican flu," connections solidified with the coverage of the first recorded...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...1,438 rolls, source consulted: s.v. P. Cleveland, 1860 United States Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Albemarle County, Virginia, http://www.ancestry.com/; P. Cleveland to [Thomas P. Jackson], May 6, 1867, Valley of the...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862–1867 (Washington, DC: US Army Center of Military History, United States Army, 2011), 501; Thavolia Glymph, The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/resource/cph.3b47842. Equally impressive was the intellectual work of Mary Church Terrell, who in 1907 published "Peonage in the United States: The Convict Lease System and...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...