Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
The Battle of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Cyclorama painting by the American Panorama Company, photographed by Michael Page, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. Click/tap and drag to navigate within the...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...Percy was "sexually sequestered" and "closed his eyes to the cultural maze in which he lived." Richard King reads Percy's writing as revealing "a man divided within himself and unable...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...forest – Ecosystem proximal to shorelines, usually dominated by live oaks (Quercus virginiana), saw palmettos (Serenoa repens), pines (Pinus spp.), and other plants tolerant of seaside conditions. Offshore sands –...
Rent
There were five houses over twenty years. We lived almost a decade in one, a mild, shallow winter in another. We bartered work for rent in the last, the one...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...of the liver, create nausea or check the secretions, and it is less likely to occasion headache.15"Questions and Answers." In short, the Times-Picayune editorial tied marijuana to more familiar forms...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...liberal reputation, blacks lived under stifling restrictions. Whites in El Paso limited Blacks to certain areas, such as the second ward neighborhood near downtown. This could be done in subtle...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...In Jacksonland, Inskeep offers the book-length equivalent of his op-ed. He narrates Cherokee Removal through the lives and careers of Jackson and Ross, presenting parallel biographies. He charts Jackson's rise from...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...is one of the most striking images from What Must Be Remembered in its visual representation of the lived experience of the international slave trade and its depiction of slavery as...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...territory (including the farm in Hestertown where relatives of the stabbed white farmer still lived). Nick, a local organizer, added, "Well, the Klan just loves their motorcades, hooting and hollering...
The Bulletin—July 2, 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...