An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...were harvested around 1916. There were trees that I wasn’t familiar with, like a type of holly called Dahoon which had little red berries. Maples. Spanish bayonets or yuccas grew...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...Ground; she was perhaps the daughter of Charles and Susan Tinney.1Mary Belcher: personal communication; Pippenger, District of Columbia Interments, 1999, 359. Matters are a little confusing since Charles and Susan...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...devastating effects of the slave trade: the sale away from kin. She married Benjamin Barbour when she was twenty, around 1845. Barbour was born in Greene County, just to the...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) as a model for understanding the consumption of American recorded music. His work also intersects with a growing literature...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...there, receiving educations in English language and literacy skills as well as in numeracy, literature, and Western philosophical and religious traditions. Those incorporated into US plantation households learned other lessons still...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...wall to our right that separates this hallowed ground from the Marine Corps Memorial, popularly known as the Iwo Jima Monument. This is a silent corner of the cemetery, far...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...attempt to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, September 4, 1957. Photograph by Will Counts. Courtesy of Matthew F. Delmont. Changes to the structure of public life took...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...visits to experimental sites and meetings with some of Cuba's foremost agricultural innovators. Most memorably, during our two week trip we got to know some farmers and gardeners. I came...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...“pen” formed by four benches of singers, gave the “key note sound all around, and then as they sang he walked around and around. When a part, like the bass...