Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Bastin, Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986), 151. Left, Georgia Fife and Drum Band, Waverly Hall, Georgia, 1969. Right, Bud Grant,...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...February 12, 1961: 11. Royalties statement for Mountain Music of Kentucky, 1961. In many ways, Cohen and his peers projected themselves onto Halcomb. Cohen's portrayal of Halcomb as a solitary, romantic, creative...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...surgical operation upon themselves."2James Hale, letter to Charles Harris, July 27, 1843, North Carolina State Archives. The Siamese Twins, Jeffersonian Republic, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, November 21, 1844. Excerpt from newspaper article...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Rosetta Records, 1987. Bottom, Portrait of Bessie Smith, February 3, 1936. Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/item/2004663572. Extending...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...even though they clearly pointed to high PCB levels among the poor and working-class families living near the plant. Monsanto Chemical Company, Anniston, Alabama, 1940. Postcard by EC Kropp Company....
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
Janet Powell, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005. Located north of Oak Ridge and about thirty miles northwest of Knoxville, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm was built in the 2000s as...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...entitled Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). McCandless has cleared that same bar with apparent ease. We can only hope that...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...Operations, 1927. Coast and Geodetic Survey. From Records of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, RG 23. For more than a century the federal government has—through its participation in flood control—shaped...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
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...