Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...the project director and editor-in-chief of Sounding Spirit, a research lab and publishing initiative promoting collaborative engagement with historical American songbooks. Karlsberg is an internationally recognized singer, teacher, composer, and songbook...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...company based in Indianapolis, Tyscot begin in 1977 as a vehicle for one of its founders, Leonard Scott, to promote his church choir. The label would add to its roster...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...city in the United States. Popular publications lauded its economic resiliency; Forbes and Time named it the top city for small business and economic growth in 2011. In 2012, Austin experienced a 6.3 percent growth in its...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...United States and beyond. In 1875, F. N. Walker, a Spartanburg merchant, advertised that he had "just returned from the North with an attractive line of SEASONABLE GOODS bought at...
The Place of Appalachia
Essay How might spatial theory help us understand the political significance and potential of the diverse, place-based struggles documented in Transforming Places? First, place matters in the pursuit of social...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...leaving to attend Western Kentucky University, 1953–1954. From 1954 until 1956, he served in the United States Army. He earned a B.A. at the University of Kentucky in 1958 and...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States (1995), examines the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...in her ranking of the fifty US states from weakest to strongest. (Slattery even gives us a formula: "1 = Best.").8Margaret Slattery, "The States of Our Union ... Are Not...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...and political in-fighting. By the 1960s, while attention was on the southern United States in the fight for civil rights and political enfranchisement, Mound Bayou, like many other Black towns...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...black abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond alongside the image. Taken from an 1862 abolitionist speech, "The Negroes In the United States of America," Remond's quotation illustrates the centrality of slave labor...