The Bulletin—March 5, 2013
...movie, Lincoln. After watching the film, a citizen looked into the history of the state’s ratification of the amendment. He then discovered that, while the Legislature voted to ratify the...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...Digital Scholarship. His documentary feature film The Well-Placed Weed is available on the PBS website and app. Michael Page is lecturer in Geospatial Sciences and Technology at Emory University. Leotie...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
Review Few issues roiled the waters of America and the South more so than temperance reform. In "the Alcoholic Republic"—William Rorabaugh's felicitous phrase—the question of prohibition divided and defined individuals...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
Review Scottsboro, Alabama 2011 marks the first public commemoration in Scottsboro of the anniversary of the arrests that irrevocably linked the town’s name with Jim Crow. The stories of the...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...places? Adina Hemley-Bronstein and Elandria Williams mapping community, STAY Summer Institute, High Rocks Camp, Hillsboro, West Virginia, Summer 2012. Photograph courtesy of the STAY Project. The answer is yes, but...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...film. William Eggleston is her first cousin and she served as his apprentice while at the Memphis Academy of Arts.6Ibid., 88. Instead of the color saturated lushness of Eggleston, Clay’s...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...South, but another social institution developed to carry Sacred Harp music forward — the singing convention. Conventions would last several days and bring together the faithful, many traveling several days...
A City Divided
...US Census of Population, Microfilm, T-624, 1910. Indeed, a turnover of black-occupied housing to white occupants would have violated racial norms. While white-occupied homes in Atlanta occasionally passed to blacks,...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...believe in the thing called art . . . I think people just make stuff."2Proceed and be Bold!, directed by Laura Zinger (Chicago: Brown Finch Films, 2008), DVD. Following this...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...and roller skating rinks…characterized by its dynamism — its brash colors, constant noise, and continual movement of people and machinery."1Lauren Rabinovitz, For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies and Culture in...