The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...interviewing historians of the integration of the University of Mississippi, James Meredith and his relatives, and students currently enrolled at the university. Kitty Dumas, an African American alumna of the...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...on the centralized, coordinated, national road building ideas that had underlain the Dixie Highway. In using the Dixie Highway's history to map the contours of early twentieth century US highway...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...school classmates back East, who mocked him for his heavy drawl and motivated him to shed all traces of his Missouri accent and, in the long run, to adopt the...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...Clark, Spelman, Morehouse, and Morris Brown colleges and Atlanta University. Atlanta had become a regional center for Black higher education. When Booker T. Washington delivered his "Atlanta Compromise" speech at...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Goldstein and his son Eddie. Another member of the family, Isaac "Rocky" Goldstein, later gained brief fame by selling David Hinckley the gun used to shoot Ronald Reagan. I know...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...high rates of underemployment in states such as South Carolina and Kentucky have increased the numbers of low-income households, as has a general downturn in wages and real income over...
Submission Guidelines
...and southern regions, offers critical scrutiny of any monolithic "South," interrogates historical developments and geographies over time, and maps expressive cultural forms associated with place. We welcome submissions from scholars,...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...so I walked into his office one day and asked if he had any job openings for the summer. Ken hired me as an editorial assistant. I found that I...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...of his grandfather's memorial, on the pages of the open stone Bible: My grandfather was born a slave and kept his Christian faith all his life. If some people are...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...the worldwide hierarchy of race that places lighter people over darker people. As educator, writer, and political activist he dedicated his life to the struggle for racial equality. But long...