Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...becomes a medicine cabinet whose magic is the reparative line from photograph to artifact to blood code that describes a history, something that can now be remembered; the depth of...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...get to use in today's world. But the word that comes to this driver's mind is slow. I feel it immediately as I enter the roadway—not only my car decelerating...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...into a more appropriate and useful channel."2Simpson, "Note to the Public," v–vi. Despite his groundbreaking creativity, Simpson is little known today. Few scholars have written about his work, and he...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...needs often receive the least support, and are now a majority in the nation's public schools. The South and the nation are today a part of a new global economy...
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...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...are biographies that also challenge the conventional trajectories of the “migrant.” In “Greece to Norfolk,” the exhibition tells of Demetrios Karkambasis (renamed James Campas) who comes to the United States...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...of traditional Texanness and modern liberalism" (163). Playing the part of the manly, uncouth Texan, LBJ signed crucial legislation of the civil rights era while stubbornly insisting that the United...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...too close to home, the horror that helped build the United States and continues to haunt us. Solomon Northup in his "plantation suit," ca. 1853. Engraving from Solomon Northrup's Twelve...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...just to read Evan's work but also to have extensive conversations with her as she was developing her thesis. often in novels set in the United States or the Caribbean,...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...continental United States. From their arrival on the banks of North America's greatest river and its tributaries, European and American settlers realized that economic development in the flood-prone region would...