"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...but in nearly all cases William’s car has been used. Come summer 2009, Representative Boyd insisted there would be a historically realistic car. “People need to see the way this...
The Bulletin—November 15, 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...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...share one particular memory of the Jolly Twelve, then he will walk the neighborhood block again, joined by John Q. Freddie Styles was born in Madison, Georgia in 1944....
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...the reckonings of someone who possessed a high degree of moral seriousness. Percy's ideals about sexuality were never separate from his ethical concerns, his questions about God and the value...
Brushes with War
...One presents a white, all-male military group portrait, while the other features a lone enslaved African American woman. One shows distinct Rebel prisoners front-and-center, in a balanced standoff with a...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...for a number of months at Arlington House, explained that visitors sometimes took her aside to ask in hushed tones, "Were there really slaves here?" She also observed that some...
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...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...justice system and prison are frequently sensationalized when they are represented in popular culture and public discourse. The post-prison re-entry process is seldom part of anyone's depiction or discussion. Shannon...
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...our website, updated our audio and video, and significantly expanded our readership. As an online journal working at the intersection of a number of scholarly disciplines, we find ourselves in...