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...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...locale. Instead, the events of the novel centered around an unnamed southern community, a place that arguably represented what was universal in all southern communities. In this, Hutchison argues, Evans...
The Border South
...Civil War and Moving Borders Although Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry failed, enslaved people liberated themselves during the Civil War that followed, fleeing their bondage at the first opportunity and...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...left them — scant, ascetic, homely, and yet comfortable. One has the sense, poking about, that they are not the ghosts haunting the place so much as we are —...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...housed in the Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection in Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. In addition to these archival materials, Dr. Pellom McDaniels III describes the...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...as "an archive that [she] can hold." Significance of the Occasion: A Letter and Comments from Charles Henry Rowell, Editor of Callaloo Dear Colleagues and Friends, Welcome to the 2014...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...number of short pieces are joined to augment the width, and one of these has a small irregular patch, suggesting mending of some previous damage. The backing was still too...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...proslavery argument. Some argued for polygenesis, the idea that God had created several races separately, with the white superior to the rest. Others claimed that blacks had their own peculiar...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...University of Texas at Austin, examines several episodes of epidemic disease occurring among the towns lining the Texas-Mexican border across nearly a century. He argues that these medical emergencies expose...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...races or women. Members' ages range from twenty-somethings to the retired. Dues are $36 per year. Women and children wearing club colors are included in activities such as the annual...