The Chesapeake Bay
...clear land for cultivation. When necessary, they moved to locations with fresh soil. Second, while Woodland Indians had lived for thousands of years in close relationship with the changing environment,...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...to the appalling sounds, or the vivid flashes from the batteries, they stood for hours fascinated with horror" (33). In "Eyeing First Bull Run," Smith discusses how commanders on both...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...challenge to remain balanced and to flow well (53–4). By setting in motion a space where people flow, where rivers and mountains are alive, where the East is associated with...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...civil rights. Locations of state parks in the South highlighting facilities made available to African Americans between 1937 and 1962. Map by William O’Brien. Originally published in William O’Brien’s Landscapes...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...qualitative ('humanistic') stories" (82). While the Ghost Maps can be read as texts replete with arguments about social and political processes, they double as tools with which individuals can generate...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...their music with a sense of mystery or exoticism by associating it with a far-off place. Like these composers, European Sacred Harp singers have related songs to place in cases...
Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
...streets and shotgun houses—both hallmarks of milltown design—and with the Fulton Mill smokestacks looming mutely in the background, the neighborhood is saturated with remnants of its industrial past. But what...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...most of the states with high rates of low-income students were in the South and West. Thirteen of the twenty-one states with a majority of low-income students were located in...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...of African Americans in the US South. Much like West Africans who were grappling with the inheritances of colonialism, African Americans lived daily with the reality of being both African...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
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...