Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...Wharton, Director of Documentary Studies at the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture, asked me to participate in a photographic project documenting the Gulf Coast of...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...for?" In Florida, confusion over the voting eligibility of thousands of ex-felons has a number of interest groups involved in a campaign to clarify the voter rolls across the state....
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...popular vote, and it lost" (192). In other southern states, too, "voters recoiled at the power and the cost of the state and federal institutions necessary to implement actual road...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...located east and west of downtown. Although most were common laborers, a small number, perhaps less than ten percent, stood above the masses by virtue of their occupation, education, or...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...are growing up in low-income families. These new-majority students lag far behind wealthier students in school achievement and graduation rates, while southern states provide the least educational support in the...
Submission Guidelines
...photographers, journalists, and artists in such areas as geography, southern studies, regional studies, African American, Indigenous, and American Studies, women's and gender studies, public health, and social justice. We are...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...getting funding, and what kind of support structures exist for scholars at the beginning stages of digital projects? Andrew J. Torget: When I started the Texas Slavery Project, I was...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...of their surrounding communities. A Community at Risk Confined for the most part to the deteriorating neighborhoods east and west of downtown, relegated to the lowest paying jobs in common...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
..."Florida's oldest restaurant and the world's largest Spanish restaurant."10See http://www.columbiarestaurant.com/The-Columbia-Experience/History. It is one of the few aspects of early Ybor City that still exists much as it did a century...
Finding Media
...reproduction, but we find that many are willing to assist researchers. Self-Produced Work: Occasionally, we produce media ourselves. Almost all of the maps on the site are made by staff...