The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...Haley announced that she will appoint Congressman Tim Scott (R-Charleston) to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by Republican Senator Jim DeMint. When he is sworn into office in...
The Bulletin—January 29, 2013
...violated the Tenth Amendment and Article IV of the United States Constitution." The case involves the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed suit on behalf of the Alabama State Conference...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...road, "Poor Monkey's Road." Tour groups stop here regularly, as do college students on field trips from around the United States. NOTE: In early spring 2006, Seaberry started calling the...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
...291,261; January 1, 1884) P.M. Stevens, Roller Coasting Device (U.S. Patent 298,710; May 18,1884) Early Roller Coaster Patents circa 1884 gif images United States Patent and Trademark Office ...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...and Technology Camp) Feminisms South. On the first day of our unconference we edited and wrote Wikipedia articles along with others across the United States, particularly at THATCamp Feminisms West...
The Place of Appalachia
Essay How might spatial theory help us understand the political significance and potential of the diverse, place-based struggles documented in Transforming Places? First, place matters in the pursuit of social...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has launched a campaign to bring back Virginia's anti-sodomy law.1 The first proposed law on sodomy in the newly formed United States of America was introduced...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...the northeastern United States after the end of slavery there. Putting on the face paint or "blacking up"—playing black men—gave white men a way to work through their own inadmissible...
Birth Right
...for normal, low-risk pregnancies. In the United States, views are polarized and there is a sharp division between the medicalized and midwifery models of care. Although medical interventions and healthcare costs are...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...Miller's brilliant new book Segregating Sound is this one: it makes thinking about the meaning of the history of this crazy section of the United States and contemporary "country" songs...