The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
...ranchers sold nearly 36,000 head of cattle last week, triple the number from a few weeks ago. The Arkansas River Basin has been hit especially hard, which is evident in this map...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...backgrounds that reflect Creole cultural contact and transformation: Taj Mahal is of African American and British West Indian parentage; Cedric Watson claims Louisiana Creole, Mexican Spanish, Native American, and African...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...reenactors were white, a number of African American reconstructed regiments, such as the Massachusetts 54th USCT, regularly participate in these events. The reenactment phenomenon has proliferated globally to include battles...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...memorial to homosexuals persecuted under the Nazi regime and Paul Harfleet's ongoing public interventions from The Pansy Project in the U.K. Taken together, these works demonstrate an intense desire, in...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...January 25, 1904). Many African American women who pursued careers in teaching earned respect and status for providing a critical service to a community in dire need. And working wives...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...country remains dominant in a number of southern states. Remarking on the similar results of the 2008 presidential election in his Southern Spaces piece "The US South and the 2008...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...William Faulkner. Among a host of contributions to any number of scholarly debates, Wise's crisp and clear articulation of Percy's views of love and sexuality will attract the attention of...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
Essay At historical plantation sites, where the subject of slavery is difficult to avoid, Park Service interpreters struggle to present the subject in the least offensive manner. Interpreters at Arlington...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana images
...2004, there were a number of construction projects underway in downtown Baton Rouge. Tourist on Docked Riverboat Modern-day riverboats, decorated like their nineteenth-century predecessors, transport tourists up and down...
"Little Switzerland"
"LITTLE SWITZERLAND, A Private Park that is Visited by a Large Number of People" "In considering the many improvements that are going on in various parts of the city, Little...