Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...writers gain from such a physical and/or imaginative movement. What do those writers or thinkers "beyond" gain from this movement? The book lays "out the myriad ways the 'South of...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...
Congregation
...diadem, the crown on a monument—a glory wreath. That is what I saw as I drove the flat land—down Highway 49—toward home. Up close now, beneath it, I see what...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...had started beautiful blue, sunny clear and crisp as thousands gathered by in front of Gallier Hall St. Charles. The great man of the streets, Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen was...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...join in a game of cards. They did not engage in gambling games, and so they refused. However, they agreed to back the neighbor, who was "handy with cards." The...
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
Janet Powell, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005. Located north of Oak Ridge and about thirty miles northwest of Knoxville, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm was built in the 2000s as...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...led to more African slaves, who were obliged to open up more stump-filled and mosquito-infested swamplands. James Gathany, A female Aedes aegypti mosquito plays a key role as a vector...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...of riverside interests had to lobby hard in order to gain legal justification and congressional support for flood control. Mississippi River Flood of 1927 showing Flooded Areas and Field of...
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...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...these limitations, Louisiana offers valuable insights for students and scholars interested in its primary subject: the creation of racial hierarchies that enabled slavery to increasingly flourish here "before cotton" (204)....