The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...Steubenville as both an impoverished town in the Rust Belt of Ohio and as an industrial Appalachian city, tacitly connecting the crime to longstanding regional stereotypes. The case has garnered...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007). the scarcity of data on the simbi during the height of the slave...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...High. Wall labels offer bits of historical context and descriptions of events with a simplicity that matches the understated power of the images. For example, one of several photos identified...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...of the entire county. In 1907, Dr. Black joined with other medical practitioners to build Spartanburg's first hospital. The Black family kept one foot in the city and one in...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...we need to dream (that is, to make into creed, to make tangible) of our complicity as a dangerous, polluting species. Wink and Hushpuppy. Still from Beasts of the Southern...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) at Emory University has launched a self-guided mobile tour of Battle-related sites throughout the city, complete with maps, historical information, photos and videos,...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...shared experience. Beginning with the successes and struggles of Austin Dabney—a Revolutionary War hero of mixed ethnicity—Jennison draws readers into the complex world of early Georgia. Like other forgotten Georgians...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...and closer to centers of endemic yellow fever in the Caribbean. No other disease,” he adds, “became so identified with the city and so influenced its lifestyle, image, and culture.”...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...the Water and Keeping the Faith dealing with African-derived religious culture of Haiti, "Vodou in the Magic City: Serving the Spirits across the Sea," demonstrates a broad understanding of religious...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...that Quamino is "marked with his Country Marks," or patterns of facial scarification that served as markers of ethnicity and identification.2Of course, physical markings cannot necessarily be correlated with ethnicity...