The Shotgun House an African Legacy

John Michael Vlach

Scratch BibliographyJohn M. Vlach, The Fabrication of a Traditional Fire Tool. The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 86, No. 339 (Jan., 1973), pp. 54-57

John Michael Vlach, The Afro-American tradition in decorative arts. Cleveland : Cleveland Museum of Art, c1978.

John Michael Vlach, Quaker Tradition and the Paintings of Edward Hicks: A Strategy for the Study of Folk Art. The Journal of American Folklore. Vol. 94, No. 372 (Apr., 1981), pp. 145-165.

John Michael Vlach, Charleston blacksmith : the work of Philip Simmons. Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1981.

John Michael Vlach, The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts. The Journal of American Folklore. Vol. 94, No. 371 (Jan., 1981), pp. 100-103

John Michael Vlach, The Brazilian House in Nigeria: The Emergence of a 20th-Century Vernacular House Type. The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 97, No. 383 (Jan., 1984), pp. 3-23

John Michael Vlach, The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts: Basketry, Musical Instruments, Wood Carving, Quilting, Pottery, Boatbuilding, Blacksmithing, Architecture, Graveyard Decoration. Ethnohistory. Vol. 39, No. 2 (Spring, 1992), pp. 242-243.

John Michael Vlach, Back of the big house : the architecture of plantation slavery. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1993.

John Michael Vlach, The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts. The Journal of Negro History. Vol. 78, No. 4 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 245-246.

John Michael Vlach; Lawrence W. Levine, By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-American Folklife: American Material Culture and Folklife. The Journal of Southern History. Vol. 59, No. 4 (Nov., 1993), pp. 757-758.

John Michael Vlach, Fred B. Kniffen's Milestones in American Folklife Study. The Journal of American Folklore. Vol. 108, No. 429 (Summer, 1995), pp. 328-333.

John Michael Vlach, The planter's prospect : privilege and slavery in plantation paintings. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

John Michael Vlach, "From Slavery to Tenancy: African-American Housing in Washington, DC, 1790-1890." In Housing Washington: Two Centuries of Residential Development and Planning in the National Capital Area , edited by Richard Longstreth, 3-21. Chicago: Center for American Places, distributed by University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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