Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...it: being around preachers was the only thing she knew, so as far back as she can remember she practiced sermonizing on farm animals. I don't know if Rosemary would...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...Emory News. The section is expected to expand as the new website takes off. The website publishes original scholarship on a monthly basis; the first article is Boyd Lewis' "Living at...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
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...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Bailey’s grandmother gave him a treasure trove of more than 400 tintypes from a family album dating back to the late 1800s…” in Carol Thompson, ed. Memory as Medicine (New...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker,...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...having populations of 100,000 or more. There were fourteen: Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery in Alabama; Little Rock in Arkansas; Baton Rouge, Lafayette, New Orleans, and Shreveport in Louisiana; Jackson...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...lynchings occurred, it was undergoing a process of change into a "New South" city. In the late nineteenth century, the population had grown alongside new factories, mills, and other industrial...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...from “Six Yellow Stanzas,” exploring legibility, estrangement, and connections to New Orleans Part 6: Alexander discusses black migration experience in her family, her use of direct address, and reads from “Georgia...