Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...1902 provides new insight into the city. After mapping the streetcar lines and the populations they serviced, Kennedy noticed zigzags that seemed to counter the idea that streetcars operate most...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...have them condemned again to lives as slaves. (Salafia doesn't follow through with Garner's subsequent trial, a missed opportunity, given what it revealed about the ambivalence of regional racial attitudes...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...her "sense of soul and self, that African sense," describing her as "absolutely not your mail order, room service, typecast black grandmother." To many in Jackson, she also possessed great...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...were born before or during World War II and lived in Atlanta or the US South during most of their adulthood or at least prior to the late 1960s. The...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...every burden her life had carried so far, open a room for this new becoming as her body flowed around her man like water. August, 1959: Morning Service Beside...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...O'Reilly as Dewey Dell Bundren, 2013. Photograph by Alissa Whelan. © RabbitBandini Productions. Because the film focuses more on the journey to bury Addie's rotting corpse than the inner lives...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...They At project," Amistad's Director of Library and Reference Services, Chris Harter, says, "have placed the Center at the forefront of efforts to document and preserve materials that chronicle the...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...lacked basic services. Meanwhile, whites with means moved upward and outward from the city's industrial core. The higher ground surrounding Birmingham also provided space for white leisure, including the overlook...
The Bulletin—May 29, 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...