Premier Elkhorn Coal Company refuse fill, Pike County, Kentucky, 2005
Image Credits
...truck, March 19, 2010. Photograph by Flickr user Michael Minter. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Curlers, December 26, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user Loren Kerns. Creative Commons license CC...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture. Their Runaway Journeys project contains maps, images, documents, and lesson plans. This comprehensive resource covers the history of slavery, routes of runaway slaves, the...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...to his father, Charles Teney, to complete the manumission process in 1827, freeing his daughter-in-law and three grandchildren. Maryland Republican, March 26, 1814, 3. The article also ran in the April...
Talk Radio, D.C.
...fever, burning and burning. When the doctor left the house, my grandmother snuck in the back door with a croaker sack of mackerel. She wrapped me all up in that...
Central America Protest, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 25, 1984
According to Duke Yearlook: Members of the Students for a Democratic Central America counter-protesting a demonstration done by the Central America Solidarity Committee. Members of the Central America Solidarity Committee...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...formal parlor, sometimes described by social historians as a "sacred" space, where weddings, funerals, and other public events were held. In addition, larger houses, such as the one built by...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...have drawn from a common stockpile of fabric pieces, which would have included new yardage, remnants from clothing construction, and occasional recycled garments. In contrast, Mary does not seem to...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...and disease eradication Forms of healing (religious, spiritual, nutritional, and medicinal) Historically Black Medical Schools Disease specific analyses: sickle cell anemia, malaria, pellagra, hookworm, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, alcoholism, Ebola,...
New Website for Music Memory
...of thousands of recordings without commercial potential. The frontpage of Music Memory, an online music archive launched by Lance Ledbetter. This month, Ledbetter has launched Music Memory, his audio-centered spin on the...