The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...Rogers, a Kentucky Republican, introduced the Reclaim Act. The law would empower the Department of the Interior to distribute funds to states and Indian nations aimed at developing land in...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...in Cuba, with only 20% of the market supplied by local production, there is plenty of room for more newcomers like Tomás. Charles D. Thompson, Jr., Pedro Rodriguez Pérez harvests...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...are arranged to form a "checkerboard" design of alternating dark and light diamonds. Construction: Rosa's Log Cabin incorporates a large number of different printed fabrics. The dark palette is limited...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...a number of improvements have taken place in the city. "Along the sweep of the nine-mile circle several attractive homes have been erected, and those who have not been in...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...and San Francisco, where their visibility and numbers result in political clout and political influence. Greenwich Village in New York and the Castro in San Francisco were two models; pioneer...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...put up on the screen. Rosemary McCombs Maxey looks at family photographs, Dustin, Oklahoma, 2015. Screenshot from Hearing the Call courtesy of Southern Spaces. As I, along with Rosemary herself...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...constructed between 1991 and 2010, the board failed to keep pace (51). As land prices rose, so did the cost of each new school. By the mid-1990s, the district's operating...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...of the earth—has been neglected or romanticized. Welchel Long, Dewey Rose, Georgia, 1987. Photograph by Lu Ann Jones. Courtesy of National Museum of American History, LJ 87-17112-2. In my recent...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...The Southern Quarterly 50, no. 4 (Summer 2013): 5, http://www.usm.edu/southern-quarterly-literary-magazine/intros/504edintro.pdf. In an essay eulogizing the poet Seamus Heaney, Trethewey describes feeling a "calling to make sense of my South, with...