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...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985); C. Topalov, "Scientific Urban Planning and the Ordering of Daily Life: The First 'War Housing' Experiment in the United States, 1917–1919,"...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...were portrayed. Duval News Company, Old Slave Market, St. Augustine, Fla., Oldest City in the United States, c. 1915, recto. Collection of the Author. From "St. Augustine's 'Slave Market': A...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
..."state sovereignty" invoke the notion of the United States government as a federal system of fifty state governments, each possessing powers that the national government cannot abridge without a compelling...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...lived for the first time in a place that had been colonized by the United States. I became acutely aware of colonization in the South Pacific and also more aware...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States (1995), examines the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...half of the United States will emerge with a majority of low-income students within the next five to seven years. Currently, such students constitute forty-six percent of US public school...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...lived in the United States for most of his life, mainly in Chicago and Charleston, South Carolina, where he taught history for thirty-four years at the College of Charleston. His...
The Border South
...of a border began to take shape. G. Woolworth Colton, Detail from Map of the United States of America, Original version available at The Library of Congress Maps Collection. Historians,...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
Review "Let the Negro fight his own battles," declared Felix Tijerina, a Mexican American civil rights activist in Texas and the national president of the League of United Latin American...