Focusing on less-known artists and leaving out the biggest names, this reference presents detailed biographical profiles of traditional country and bluegrass performers. An introduction gives an o
The author analyzes the nature of religious language in song, prayer, preaching, teaching, and testimony at the Fellowship Independent Baptist Church near Stanley, Virginia, based on fieldwork cond
This accessible study reviews the history of circus workers and circus owners in the context of the rapid industrialization in the US after the Civil War. The book focuses on business practices of
"Founded in eastern Arkansas during the Great Depression, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) has long fascinated historians, who have emphasized its biracial membership and the socialist convict
"This book chronicles the interesting lives of the nineteenth-century painter James Cameron (1817-1882) and his wife, Emma (1825-1907). James Cameron's remaining known oeuvre contains about twenty pai
Smith explores the scope and character of the interaction between Southern Baptists and early Fundamentalism during the late 1910s and the early 1920s. Despite their conservative theology, leaders of
Between 1776 and the mid-1800s, the number of Baptists in the United States grew at a staggeringrate, rising from fifty thousand at the outbreak of revolution to more than a million as the nationedged
The South was no stranger to world’s fairs prior to the end of the nineteenth century. Atlanta first hosted a fair in the 1880s, as did New Orleans and Louisville, but after the 1893 World’s Columbian
In the South, colonialism threw together three peoples who each played important roles in the creation of a new kind of society. Making an Atlantic World explores how Native Americans, Africans, and E
"Hubka argues that even "vernacular architecture" scholars tend to embrace a model for understanding home forms that relies on iconic architects and theories about how ideas proceed downward from aest
This volume is the first comprehensive overview of North Carolina Presbyterians to appear in more than a hundred years. Drawing on congregational and administrative histories, personal memoirs, and
In any age, humans wrestle with apparently inexorable forces. Today, we face the threat of global terrorism. In the aftermath of September 11, few could miss sensing that a great evil was at work in
From the early 1500s to the mid-1700s, the American Southeast was the scene of continuous tumult as European powers vied for dominance in the region while waging war on Native American communities. Ye
Appalachians All intertwines the histories of three communities—Knoxville with its urban life, Cades Cove with its farming, logging, and tourism legacies, and the Clearfork Valley with its coal pro
In the wake of their defeat in the Civil War, many southern intellectuals recognized that their institutions had failed to supply antebellum graduates with the skills needed to compete with the North
In small cities and towns across the United States, Main Street hotels were iconic institutions. They were usually grand, elegant buildings where families celebrated special occasions, local clubs and
Inventing Black Women fills important gaps in our understanding of how African American women poets have resisted those conventional notions of gender and race that limit the visibility of Black femal
Renowned storyteller Ray Hicks was a certified national treasure. He received many prestigious honors in his lifetime, including the National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for
"In tracing the evolution of political culture in early Tennessee, Kris Ray provides a sweeping study of the multifaceted ways in which early Americans understood leadership and democratic participati
During the Civil War, it was said that two ladies on a train were discussing the likely outcome of the conflict. One insisted Jeff Davis would win the war because he was a praying man. The other repli
Agee's obsession with the dangers of nuclear weapons inspired him in part to venture into film writing. His choice of collaborators was first Charles Chaplin, then John Huston, but his efforts led to
Smoking has played an important role in the cultures of North America since ancient times. Because of the ceremonial and ritual aspects of the practice in Native American societies, smoking pipes are
Ken Burns, creator of the television documentary The Civil War, has called Shelby Foote a “national treasure.” Foote, whose appearances on the program helped solidify its phenomenal success, earned a
Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810), a prolific and often controversial writer,? has long been recognized as a significant figure in U.S. literary and cultural history. Brown’s prose fiction, periodica
In Dark Symbols, Obscure Signs, Riggins R. Earl Jr. investigates how slave owners intentionally manipulated Christianity as they passed it on to slaves and demonstrates how slaves successfully challen
At the end of the nineteenth century, a group of Americans who embraced the Theosophical religious movement founded a new community at Point Loma, an isolated promontory on the Pacific Ocean. Anticipa
In this book, A. Yemisi Jimoh demonstrates the critical influence of music on the fiction of various twentieth-century African American writers. Exploring novels and short stories by Toni Morrison, Jo
"This is the most comprehensive manual written on natural dyes since the early 1800s.? Jim Liles has rescued ancient skills from near-extinction and shared them in a book that will inspire, challenge,
