COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...personal reckoning and welcome revisions in how they take care of themselves and other people in their lives. However, many COVID-19 lessons and changes are likely to fade, including some that...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi is a welcome and much-needed investigation into the unlikely survival and surprising success of this remarkable indigenous community. About the Author Claudio Saunt is the Richard...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...When her plane landed, the “Pacific breeze” blew through her hair and welcomed her to Los Angeles. Soon, however, she started to miss the straight up “boys from Alabama” and...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Politics Identity and Place in a Global Southern City Proposals for papers, talks, multi-media presentations, or round-table discussions should be no more than 400 words. We welcome proposals on any...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...lamb, chicken, and catfish for federal food nutrition assistance programs, including food banks and school lunch and breakfast programs. This announcment is welcome news for farmers and ranchers across the...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Atlanta are welcome, but priority will be given to papers that relate in some way to the themes listed above. Preference will also be given to proposals for fully constituted...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...sees as the fixation of much historiography on territorial acquisition and filibustering expeditions. Yet, while Karp’s emphasis on foreign policy as a manifestation of institutional power is welcomed, he may overplay...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...and evolving topic. His work is welcome in its ability to open up, both for academic and general readers, a historiography that can be as dauntingly complicated as the place...
Murray Mountain, North Carolina
...for a time and it's going to be gone. And now it is because the Welcome Center is right over here and it's lit up and is never going to...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...a key player in the city's racially-shifting midcentury real estate business and power structure. Collier Heights, originally a predominately white neighborhood in Atlanta’s southwest corner, would not have welcomed Russell...