Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...Transformation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). Applying Sewell to the Catawbas affords Beck a fresh approach to questions of Native historiography. In applying social theory to coalescence, Beck argues...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...behavior.7On the FaSoLa Minutes app, see Clarissa Fetrow, "There's an App for That: A Review of the 'FaSoLa Minutes' App," Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter 3, no. 2 (November 12,...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...judge is to interpret and apply the laws as they are written. . . . That's what we mean when we say that we have the rule of law and...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...protests. Largely ignored by locals and overlooked by tourists, the market sits empty in the center of America’s oldest continuously inhabited, European-established city. Despite its changing purposes, it remains best...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...storytelling, handicrafts), Madison was also the state's leading producer of burley tobacco. Interview with Mars Hill mayor Raymond Rapp about the prospects for planned development. (November 17, 2000. Approx. 1...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...a foundation there called Summerlee which funded two different things: animal rights and Texas history projects. Fortunately, you don’t have to do both simultaneously to get a grant. They approached...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Atlanta's history, politics, and the arts converge ... [They are] responsible for some of the most prominent aural and visual aesthetics that have come to define the South."1 Fahamu Pecou, phone...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...He cites a diverse array of writers, including James Joyce, Philip Roth, and Eudora Welty, as important influences on his creative approach to place. Rash's poetry and fiction have appeared...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...not an American city. It was a Caribbean city. Once you recalibrate, it becomes the best governed, cleanest, most efficient, and best-educated city in the Caribbean. New Orleans is actually...