The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. This week, in a belated celebration of Labor Day, The Bulletin focuses upon the role of organized labor in the 2012 Republican...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...housed in cabins on the north end of Ossabaw Island, Georgia, 2019. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces. The British took control of Ossabaw in the 1730s, by which time the...
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...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...July 28, 2012, 12 Noon First African Baptist Church, 130 Tyler Street, Monroe, GA 30655 (at Highway 11, Across from Church’s Chicken) Schedule 12 Noon - Church opens for meditation...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...reviewed by the editorial board. AtlantaStudies.org also offers a gateway to several projects and resources. Current featured projects are the ECDS's Battle of Atlanta smartphone-accessible tour; the Peoplestown Project about the...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
..."Strange Earth: The Stories of Flannery O'Connor." Georgia Review XII (Summer 1958): 216. Although some stories — namely, "The Geranium" and "The Artificial Nigger" — take place in cities such as New...
Brushes with War
...General George McClellan's Peninsula Campaign of 1862. In 1863, working as an illustrator for Harper's Weekly and taking art classes at night, the aspiring artist told a friend he hoped...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...Republican lawmakers in the state also plan to introduce an "omnibus voting bill" in the next few weeks that would decrease the number of early voting days and eliminate Sunday...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...quarrels with his "bosom friend [ . . . ] Joe Harper" (55). Tom and Joe "were sworn friends all the week and embattled enemies on Saturdays" (55). For Twain,...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Her Early Settlers (New York: Robert Carter, 1846), 193, 218; Eli W. Caruthers, A Sketch of the Life and Character of the Rev. David Caldwell, D.D. Near Sixty Years Pastor...