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Category Archives: southern history
Throwbacklist Thursday
in american history, public health, southern history
Tagged disease, JoAnn Scurlock and Burton R. Andersen, John Duffy, public health, slavery, Todd L. Savitt
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The Zika virus. It’s making headlines and provoking anxieties. A disease-causing pathogen carried by Aedes mosquitoes—the culprits behind yellow fever, dengue, and chikungunya, among other ills—Zika was isolated in Uganda in the 1940s. Mosquitoes being mosquitoes, and humans having the habit … Continue reading
Throwbacklist Thursday
in american history, black studies, southern history, women's history
Tagged Daina Ramey Berry, Leslie A. Schwalm, Leslie W. Lewis, Marli F. Weiner, women and slavery
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A Hard Fight for We: Women’s Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina, by Leslie A. Schwalm African American women fought bravely and tenaciously for their freedom during the Civil War and after. Focusing on slave women on the … Continue reading
Throwbacklist Thursday
in american history, food, Illinois / regional, local authors, southern history
Tagged alcohol, Appalachian history, booze, Charles D. Thompson Jr., crime, food history, James Moore, John Hallwas, Throwbacklist Thursday
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Drink bothered the Founding Fathers. Not on a personal level, of course. John Adams drank a tankard of hard cider with his breakfast and George Washington went on many a bender. No, they saw boozing as a threat to the good functioning of … Continue reading
Survey Says!: The King Is Dead
in music, southern history
Tagged Elvis Presley, Michael T. Bertrand, music, popular music, Race Rock and Elvis, rock and roll music, Survey Says!
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This week marks the anniversary of the death (?) of Elvis Presley, a transformative cultural figure of the twentieth or any other century. If you have memories of that afternoon in 1977, you perhaps recall what you were doing when news of … Continue reading
Daisy Turner’s words
in american history, biography, black studies, folklore, poetry, southern history, women's history
Tagged Civil War, Daisy Turner, Jane C. Beck, slavery
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Daisy Turner was a woman of many words. The storyteller and poet was a living repository of history. She related the stories of her own family, from the abduction of her ancestors in West Africa to her own upbringing in … Continue reading
Q&A with Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad author Cheryl LaRoche
in american history, author commentary, black studies, new books, religion, southern history
Tagged archaeology, Cheryl LaRoche, Underground Railroad
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Cheryl Janifer LaRoche is a lecturer in American studies at the University of Maryland. She answered some questions about her book Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance. Q: You write that the Underground Railroad is a … Continue reading
Living with Lynching author to speak at Library of Congress
in american history, author events, black studies, literary studies, southern history, women's history
Tagged Koritha Mitchell, Library of Congress, Living with Lynching
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How did African Americans survive the period between 1890 and 1930 when mobs lynched members of their communities and proudly circulated pictures of the mutilated corpses? How did African Americans maintain a dignified sense of self when photographs of lynch … Continue reading
The Beautiful Music All Around Us awarded by ARSC
in authors, awards, folklore, music, southern history
Tagged ARSC, Library of Congress, Stephen Wade, The Beautiful Music All Around Us
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Stephen Wade’s book, The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience has been awarded Best History in the 2013 The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Awards for Excellence category of Best Research in Folk, World, … Continue reading
Rebels and Runaways wins Florida Book Award
in awards, southern history
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Larry Eugene Rivers’s recent book Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida has received the Bronze Medal in the Florida Book Awards Nonfiction Category for 2012. Published in July 2012, Rebels and Runaways analyzes the various degrees of slave … Continue reading