Published in Harper’s Weekly, December 19, 1863.
Category: Sources
Lincoln: Address to Special Session of Congress (4 July 1861)
“Our popular Government has often been called an experiment…”
Homer: “A Bivouac Fire on the Potomac” (1861)
Harper’s Weekly‘s December 21, 1861 edition features (among many other images) this stunning centerfold of Winslow Homer’s “A Bivouac Fire on the Potomac”: Homer depicts an encounter between diverse American cultures — celtic, North African, West African, Afro-Caribbean — centered on the evening’s entertainments of dance, fiddle, and other camp pastimes.
Hutchinson: “Book of Words” (1851)
Greatest hits from the first decade of their career…
Hardtacks Antebellum & Civil War SONGSTER
An anthology of 100+ midcentury song sheets & lyrics drawn from primary sources…
Smith: “The Creolization of American Culture” (2013)
“William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy”
Dubois: “The Banjo” (2016)
“The growing of a new gourd in strange lands to replace the broken ones of the old, the crafting of strings to sound out new songs.”
Flaherty: “Music of the Old South: Polk Miller & the Old South Quartette” (2006)
Collects the recordings and ephemera of the OSQ (1909-1928), in all their shocking and confusing beauty…
Hutchinson: “The Story of the Hutchinsons (Tribe of Jesse)” (1896)
Invaluable insights into one of the most famous singing families of the Antebellum era.
Hugill: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” (1961)
“Shipboard Work-Songs and Songs Used as Work-Songs from the Great Days of Sail”
Epstein: “Sinful Tunes and Spirituals” (1978)
Black Folk Music to the Civil War
Jamison: “Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics” (2015)
“Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance”
The Hardtacks 