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A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

The Bulletin—May 8, 2013

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...

Frank Willis

I am in the four percent of adults 18-29 who told George Gallup they know "a lot" about Watergate. "Watergate" was the building near the Howard Johnson's where we'd go...

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...ancient Near East to Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s. Another essay, by Joël Michel, surveys various forms of collective violence...

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...