The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
...and Democratic National Conventions held in Tampa, Florida and Charlotte, North Carolina respectively. The Huffington Post reported that many of the workers responsible for cleaning up after convention-goers at...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
Introduction At high noon, Nashville time, on Monday, May 17, 1954, all nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington joined in a declaration that legally-sanctioned racial segregation...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
Introduction Moral Monday, July 30, 2013. Cartoon by Kevin Siers. Reprinted with permission, Kevin Siers, The Charlotte Observer. What is happening in North Carolina? It's a question I've been asked...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...Shircliffe describes a Tampa, Florida, community that successfully petitioned for a new high school named after the local all-black school that desegregation had "taken." The restoring of their cherished school...
The Bulletin—June 19, 2013
...outside interests," a recent study has indicated that ninety eight percent of the protestors are from North Carolina. Florida's "Bong Ban" is set to take effect on July 1, 2013. The bill,...
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012
...Mississippi's governor has joined other southern Republican governors from Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Texas in declining to participate in the program, in the wake of a Supreme Court...
The Border South
...enslaved people (225,483) than Texas, Florida, and Arkansas, and the state contained more slaveholders than any other Southern state except Georgia and Virginia. The single largest slaveholding county in Kentucky,...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...relations in Georgia were dominated by white paranoia and stories of runaway slaves taking up arms with Native Americans, Spaniards and Britons in Florida. As cotton replaced rice as Georgia's...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...won Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina. He also challenged seriously in Georgia and potentially could have won the state had he not pulled out resources in the aftermath of the...