The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...for?" In Florida, confusion over the voting eligibility of thousands of ex-felons has a number of interest groups involved in a campaign to clarify the voter rolls across the state....
Good-Bye to All That?
...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...propaganda; others, like the Narrative of the Life and Sufferings of Mrs. Jane Johns (1837), also set in Florida, commodify white women's suffering and white male grief in startlingly explicit...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...Florida." Southern Spaces, August 11, 2016. https://southernspaces.org/2016/queer-memory-loss-martyrs-and-memorialization-southern-florida. Please submit proposals (350–500 words) or full projects to series editor Eric Solomon (seditor@emory.edu) on or before July 30th, 2018. There is no...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...the American Negro Academy, an association of African American "men of science, letters and art or those distinguished in other walks of life" was founded in Washington, DC. It's purpose...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...hundred $100 fine print hardbacks of the book, unavailable for retail. When the paperback came out in April of 1997, we sold 800 copies the first day at a book...
Cajun South Louisiana
...and Charles Laveau Trudeau. Courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, DC. Africa and the West Indies were major influences on south Louisiana in the colonial era....
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...persistence." Hundreds of scientists have contributed to the development of WWF's Conservation Science Program and identified over 800 distinct terrestrial ecoregions across the globe.1Robert G. Bailey, Description of the Ecoregions...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Laborers in the Construction of the United States Capitol, Report by the Architect of the Capitol," June 1, 2005, https://emancipation.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/emancipation/publication/attachments/History_of_Slave_Laborers_in_the_Construction_of_the_US_Capitol.pdf. Was this true for the Smithsonian as well? First, a...