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It was the site of rice, indigo, and cotton plantations, but today is known best for its residents, settlers of slaves and the sustainers of Gullah culture, which has preserved African linguistic ...
Small Town America: A Narrative History, 1620-The Present (Putnam, 1980) Longworth, Richard C. Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism (2008) online Miller, John E. "Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces Shaping the American Midwest," Studies in Midwestern History (2015) 1#1 pp.1-10, on push and pull factors as farm boys ...
There's a certain charm to small-town America. From scenic places in Maine, Alaska, California, and beyond, we've got the scoop on some of the nation's smallest towns. 22 of the Smallest Towns in ...
The town’s school, grocery store, notary, and church are all inside the same building, or connected by a tunnel, and even though it's small, summertime sees the town welcoming over 700,000 visitors.
Americana artifacts are related to the history, geography, folklore, and cultural heritage of the United States of America. Americana is any collection of materials and things concerning or characteristic of the United States or of the American people, and is representative or even stereotypical of American culture as a whole. [1] [2]
Middletown: A Study in American Culture was primarily a look at changes in the white population of a typical American city between 1890 and 1925, a period of great economic change. The Lynds used the "approach of the cultural anthropologist " (see field research and social anthropology ), existing documents, statistics, old newspapers ...
Middle America is generally used as both a geographic and cultural label, suggesting a central United States small town or suburb where most people speak with a General American accent, are middle class or upper middle class, Evangelical or Mainline Protestant, and typically European Americans, particularly of Anglo-Saxon Protestant, Ulster ...
Dahlonega, a cute small town of just under 7,500 people, was the site of the first major gold rush in U.S. history, and much of the town is dedicated to telling the story of that historic time.