Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...A Life in the Woods (Boston, MA: Ticknor and Fields, 1854). Our city creeks mark charismatic, if uncomfortable points of context between activism and disaster fetish, economics and racial inequity,...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...the United States, 1848–1928 (London: Oxford University Press, 2017); David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987); and Nicholas Villanueva Jr.,...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...one of purification. By separating from the demonic North, a pure southern nation could preserve order, slavery, and constitutional liberty.13Johnson Jones Hooper to John DeBerniere Hooper, December 25, 1860, reprinted...
I-26, Corridor of Change
Introduction Highway Construction on I-26, Buckner Gap, North Carolina. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. "Good roads take people both ways," said a Madison County resident, anticipating the completion of I-26...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...a neighboring farmer. Their children were James Robert (b. 1854), Nancy Jane (b. 1856), a stillborn infant (1858), and Mary Louisa (b. 1860). During the Civil War, Rosa maintained the...
Per Capita Income and Percentage of Residents Living Below the Poverty Line in Georgia Counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Region
Listed below are the poverty line percentages and per capita income figures for the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley. With the exception of Harris and Chattahoochee counties...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...Plan of Splendid Property and Two Fine Lots of Ground, Second District, March 12, 1860. Plan Book 005.018, New Orleans Notarial Archives. In the 1840s and ‘50s, New Orleans was...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
Readings Rodney Jones reads the poem "Failed Memory Exercise." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Homage To...
The Bulletin—August 9, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...Richards, Jan. 17, 1838, Voucher 1, Subvoucher 15, to Thomas McCarty, Jan. 17, 1838, Voucher 1, Subvoucher 16, and to Robert Smith, Jan. 18, 1838, Voucher 1, Subvoucher 21, all...