Shreveport, Louisiana images
Shreveport, Louisiana: Landscaping, El Dorado Casino Resort Today, the downtown and waterfront areas, bustle with tourist, most of whom gamble at one of several riverboat casinos. Artist's Rendering of RiverView...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Wilmington remains, even today, quite different from the adjacent piedmont. Slaves of the Rebel General Thomas F. Drayton, Hilton Head, South Carolina, 1862. Photograph by Henry P. Moore. Courtesy of...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
Introduction At high noon, Nashville time, on Monday, May 17, 1954, all nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington joined in a declaration that legally-sanctioned racial segregation...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...and other scholars have been so busy whittling away at that old standard story that today only a stump remains. Even the National History Standards, written and approved during a...
The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
...the importance of organized labor to today's workers, we encourage you to read (or reread) some of our pieces on labor in the US South like Fran Ansley and Anne...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...in the competition. A joint investigation by National Public Radio and the Center for Public Integrity released in two parts (part one yesterday and part two today) this week suggests...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
Review "I don't need a map to tell me where I am today." —Mike Cooley The Drive-By Truckers have always done their best and most arresting work about place. They...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...Church numbered among its congregants many enslaved persons. No traces of the Centenary Institute survive in today's Summerfield, other than its weathered and worn front steps, which can be just...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...culturally, tracing the city's trajectory from problematic European colony to Congo Square to today while offering thoughtful considerations of themes in music-making in the city over time. Settling on the...