The Chenega Project

A young Furman graduate spends a year in Alaska, recording the culture and traditions of a small but proud community

Prized Pieces of Land: The Impact of Reconstruction on African-American Land Ownership in Lower Richland County, South Carolina

This report is divided into five sections. The first section assesses the promise of Reconstruction for black South Carolinians in the years after the Civil War, and it situates thiscase study of the South Carolina Land Commission within that historical context. The second section examines in turn the seven tracts of land sold by the Land Commission in LowerRichland County. The research indicates that in two of the tracts, Hickory Hill and Hopkins, African-American families were able to purchase and retain significant acreage for well over acentury. Section three offers some concluding observations, as it presents a set of recommendations for preserving the extant properties of Lower Richland County associated withthe Land Commission sales and for interpreting this history to public audiences through museum exhibits and educational programming. The primary and secondary sources consulted in this study are listed in section four as a guide to further reading.https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/pubhist_books/1002/thumbnail.jp

Concert recording 2017-11-06

[Track 1]. Sebben crudele / Antonio Caldara -- [Track 2]. Orpheus with his lute / William Schuman -- [Track 3]. Heaven help my heart -- [Track 4]. Little elegy / John Duke -- [Track 5]. Bel piacere / G.F. Handel -- [Track 6]. I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables / Claude-Michel Schönberg -- [Track 7]. In questa tomba oscura / Ludwig van Beethoven -- [Track 8]. Lasst mich nur auf meinem Sattel gelten! from Freisinn / Robert Shumann -- [Track 9]. Für Musik / Robert Franz -- [Track 10]. Edelweiss from The sound of music / Rodgers & Hammerstein -- [Track 11]. Tu lo sai / Giuseppe Torelli -- [Track 12]. Glück / Max Reger -- [Track 13] Le colibri / Ernest Chausson -- [Track 14] Der Der Schäfer / Hugo Wolf -- [Track 15]. A route to the sky / Jake Heggie -- [Track 16]. Ich liebe dich / Edvard Grieg -- [Track 17]. When it all fall down from Chaplin / Christopher Curtis -- [Track 18]. Voyage a Paris / Francis Poulenc -- [Track 19]. Crucifixion / arr. Hall Johnson -- [Track 20]. Bright is the ring of words / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- [Track 21]. Non t\u27amo piu / Francesco Paolo Tosti -- [Track 22]. Se tu m\u27ami / Alessandro Parisotti -- [Track 23]. I love the way from Something\u27s rotten / Kirkpatrick & Kirkpatrick -- [Track 24]. A madrigal / Herbert Howells -- [Track 25]. El majo discrete / Enrique Granados -- [Track 26]. The roadside fire / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- [Track 27]. Che fiero costume / Giovanni Legrenzi -- [Track 28]. An die Musik / Franz Shubert -- [Track 29]. I will sing new songs of gladness / Anton Dvorak -- [Track 30]. Full fathom five from The tempest / Henry Purcell -- [Track 31]. Nimmerstate Libe / Hugo Wolf -- [Track 32]. Deposuit potentes from Magnificat / Johann Sebastian Bach -- [Track 33]. Vaghissima sembiante / Stefano Donaudy -- [Track 34]. Tormani a vaghegghiar from Alcina / G.F. Handel -- [Track 35]. Nobody knows this little rose / John Duke -- [Track 36]. Let beauty awake / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- [Track 37]. Steal away / arr. Hall Johnson -- [Track 38]. Come paride vezzoso from L\u27elisir d\u27amore / Kirkpatrick & Kirkpatrick -- [Track 39]. Dich, teure Halle from Tannhaüser / Richard Wagner -- [Track 40]. Non t\u27accotare all\u27urna / Giuseppe Verdi -- [Track 41]. Zur Rosenzeit / Edvard Grieg

Health care quality-improvement approaches to reducing child health disparities.

Relatively few quality-improvement efforts have been aimed at reducing differences in children's care and outcomes across race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and insurance status. To inform quality-improvement efforts to reduce child health disparities, we summarize lessons learned from the adult disparities-intervention literature, identify interventions that have reduced disparities in pediatric asthma outcomes and immunization rates, and outline special considerations for child disparity interventions. Key recommendations for providers, health care organizations, and researchers include: (1) examine your performance data stratified according to insurance status, race/ethnicity, language, and socioeconomic status; (2) measure and improve childhood health-related quality of life, development, and condition-specific targets (such as asthma and immunizations); (3) measure and improve anticipatory guidance for early prevention of conditions (such as injuries, violence, substance abuse, and sexually transmitted diseases) and efforts to promote positive growth (such as readership programs to improve low literacy); (4) measure and improve structural aspects of care that affect child health outcomes and can reduce disparities, such as patient-centered medical-home elements; (5) incorporate families into interventions; (6) use multidisciplinary teams with close tracking and follow-up of patients; (7) integrate non-health care partners into quality-improvement interventions; and (8) culturally tailor quality improvement. A key recommendation for payers is to align financial incentives to reduce disparities. The National Institutes of Health and other funders should support (1) disparity-intervention studies on these recommendations that analyze clinical outcomes, intervention-implementation processes, and costs, and (2) creation of new child health services researchers who can find effective quality-improvement approaches for reducing disparities