JSTOR Daily interviews Head Archivist Angela Proctor at Southern University about John B. Cade's project to document and preserve the stories of formerly enslaved people. These pre-date those collected by the WPA in 1940. The handwritten transcripts of the interviews are available for free on JSTOR. 

https://www.jstor.org/site/southern-university/opinions-regarding-slavery-slave-narratives/

Read more about this project here:

https://daily.jstor.org/john-b-cades-project-to-document-the-stories-of-the-formerly-enslaved/

https://daily.jstor.org/angela-proctor-on-the-opinions-regarding-slavery-slave-narratives-collection/

John B. Cade, "Opinions Regarding Slavery: Slave Narratives" Collection

The history of the Thanksgiving holiday, the humble origins of the Tofurkey, vegetarian Thanksgiving in the nineteenth century, plus food waste and what we can do about it.

JSTOR Daily - Thanksgiving Outro

Thanksgiving - Vegeterians

Thanksgiving - Food Waste

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JSTOR Daily interview with professor Alondra Nelson of Columbia University. Dr. Nelson discusses her book, "Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination."

Read the Interview on JSTOR Daily

http://daily.jstor.org/interview-with-alondra-nelson/


Alondra Nelson Interview

Despite puns being found virtually everywhere, and not just in the English language, the socially acceptable response still seems to be overwhelmingly negative or at best ambivalent. Why? We talk to linguist Chi Luu, author of JSTOR Daily's Lingua Obscura column, and two scholars of puns Richard Lederer and Catherine Bates to find out.

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Pun Intended: JSTOR Daily's Pilot Podcast

John McCready, unaccompanied vocals.

Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Groveland, California on July 31, 1939.

Forms part of a group of field materials documenting John McCready performing Anglo-American songs on July 31, August 2, and August 5, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Groveland, Tuolumne County, California.

Source: https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?cowellbib:72:./temp/~ammem_oGnl::

WPA CA Folk Music Project

Bologny Sausage (Anglo-American folk song)

Unidentified musicisans playing violin, guitar, and two mandolins.

Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Carmel, California on February 18, 1939.

Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Mexican music performed by Julio Gomez' Orchestra at the wedding of Ben and Rosa Figueroa on February 18, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Carmel, California.

Source: https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?cowellbib:6:./temp/~ammem_Z8hm::

Wedding Polka (Mexican)

Aslanian's Armenian Orchestra, performers.

Dust jacket notes: The qanun plays the opening solo.

Jack Aslanian, violin; Bedros Haroutunian, qanun; Archie Krotlian, oud; Mesrout Takakjian, clarinet.

Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Fresno, California on April 23, 1939.

Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Aslanian's Armenian Orchestra performing Armenian and Armeno-Turkish dance music on April 23, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Fresno, California.

Source: https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?cowellbib:11:./temp/~ammem_xY1V::

Song of Freedom (Armenian)

Nilssen, Alf, performer.

Dust jacket notes inscribed by Sidney Robertson Cowell: "Gudbrandsdal dialect."

Alf Nilsson, unaccompanied vocals.

Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Carmel, California on February 18, 1939.

In Norwegian.

Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Norwegian songs performed by Alf Nilsson on February 18, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Carmel, California.

Source: https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?cowellbib:4:./temp/~ammem_iyiP::

Paul on the Hill (Norwegian)

Donald MacInnes, unaccompanied vocals.

Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California on February 15, 1939.

In Scots Gaelic.

Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Donald MacInnes performing Gaelic songs from the Hebrides, Scotland, on February 15 and June 15, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California.

Source: https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?cowellbib:10:./temp/~ammem_NbrL::

An Ode to Whiskey (Scots Gaelic)

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