The Bulletin—July 24, 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...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...identified as Creole, but, perhaps more importantly, it is a place where recovery in cultural terms can be described in the creative, transformative, and sometimes improvisatory terms of cultural creolization...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...why I got it for practically nothing!. . . It belongs in the reenactment. That’s why it came to me I think.” At the first reenactment in 2005, William played...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
Adrienne Herndon (1869–1910) Portrait of Adrienne Herndon, date unknown. (c) The Herndon Home. "It is simply inevitable that I should end up on the stage," Adrienne stated in 1904 just...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...in this piece by Sommer Mathis writing in The Atlantic Cities, about the importance of cities in deciding the election. Metropolitan areas in the US South and elsewhere in the interior...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...memorial to homosexuals persecuted under the Nazi regime and Paul Harfleet's ongoing public interventions from The Pansy Project in the U.K. Taken together, these works demonstrate an intense desire, in...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...Boston theatre with Percy and Harold Bruff; it is to sit in vexed watchfulness at the Washington County Historical Society in Mississippi; it is to ride on trains and steamships,...
Brushes with War
...eyes on veterans wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan, while most Americans were looking elsewhere.1 A CBS interview with Michael Fay is at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57427637/sketching-veterans-recovering-from-war-so-their-stories-arent-lost/. His blog, "Fire and Ice," is at...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...to interpret slavery in the slave quarters than in the main house. Visitors were ready to ask questions and engage in discussion about slavery while in the slave quarters but...
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...