The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...visualize the geography of political power. Mark Newman, Paul Dirac Collegiate Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan, released a series of maps and cartograms depicting the state- and...
Brushes with War
...setting—SAAM's home in the Old Patent Office—could not have been more appropriate. Walt Whitman called the stately edifice, designed by Charleston-born architect Robert Mills, "that noblest of Washington buildings." He...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...New Orleans artists and personalities like Kenneth "DJ Chicken" Williams Jr. and Wayne "Wild Wayne" Benjamin started internet-based radio and mixtape projects geared toward those trying to find and/or reconnect...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...(3). John Adams Whipple, Louis Agassiz, January, 1865. With great thoroughness, Sex, Sickness, and Slavery documents how physicians eagerly brought the evidence of medical science to the aid of the...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Rap,” “discussion with Florynce Kennedy and Diane Schulder,” June 27, 1971, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University. The SCLC collection contains audio recordings of these radio programs, transcripts of aired interviews,...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...Kramer's point becomes even more apt. They all photographed a diverse cross section of the United States for various publications and New Deal programs, such as the Farm Security Administration,...
Image Credits
...Pietà Revisited, 2014. Mixed-media collage by Jonathan Kent Adams. Freedom?, 2014. Mixed-media collage by Jonathan Kent Adams. Hoosier Hospitality, March 30, 2015. Photograph by Flickr user Mike Licht. Creative Commons...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...down the channel to listen for the baby's dreams — all years after the whorehouses, the fires, Reconstruction and true religion came, after Whitman said his piece and left the...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...(University of Georgia Press, 2018). Courtesy of Willena Scott-White. To tour the plant was to be forced to imagine what was and what might have been. Paint had faded, beams...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...states of the former Confederacy,1See George Rable, But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984); Lou Faulkner Williams,...