And the Prize Goes to...
Elizabeth Engelhardt. Photograph by Marsha Miller. Courtesy of the University of Texas. At the end of the Spring 2015 semester, seventeen students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...Bell "could play all of the twenty-two positions on the field, and play them well."2Larry Watts, "The Coachable One," Big Ten: Celebrating Black History Month, February 2, 2010, http://www.bigten.org/genrel/020210aab.html. Bell...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...the public schoolchildren in twenty-one states were eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches, a benefit available only to families living in poverty or near-poverty. The report further documents that...
The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
Today’s post is the first in an ongoing series compiling links related to news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...fifty years. The exodus continues today as black and white young people seek out places with better economic opportunities. “Outlands” suggests places that are not just rural but removed...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...Electric Power acknowledged its support of MTR as a way for the company to meet its coal requirements at low prices. In 1999, American Electric Power was the largest purchaser...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...people who had struggled financially their whole lives. In other words, the gamut of immigrant experience.” Photographer unknown, Two Italian-Americans, Elannore T. Carrieri and Anna Guarina, at unveiling of Columbus Statue,...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...even know that people elsewhere all over the country was suffering from want." —Donald Harington’s “Vance Randolph” character in Butterfly Weed1Donald Harington, Butterfly Weed (New Milford, CT: The Toby Press,...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...and created a new taxonomy for American nature. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) today defines an ecoregion as "a large area of land or water that contains a geographically distinct...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...class struggle—and I could not. Because from the beginning of my graduate school education until today—that is, for the last 35 years— the majority of my teaching jobs have been...