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A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

The Bulletin—July 10, 2012

...healthcare law varies across place.   The McAllen Public Library in McAllen, Texas recently won a 2012 Library Interior Design Award from the International Interior Design Association for their 123,000 square-foot...

Huntsville, Alabama images

Huntsville, Alabama: Big Spring International Park Attracted by a fast-flowing spring, John Hunt, the founder of Huntsville, built a cabin here in 1805. Six years later, Huntsville became the first...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...the opera house, so that an otherwise all too typical lynching became national, and even international, news. The story, for instance, appeared in a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, along...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...Find 'Forgotten' America," New York Times, April 22, 2008. The Bloody Sunday beatings, by Dallas County deputies and Alabama state troopers, provoked international outrage, led to the Selma to Montgomery...

An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim

...family history; discussion of "Elegy for the Southern Drawl;" and realism.) About Rodney Jones Rodney Jones won the 2007 Kingsley Tufts Prize and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry...

Authorship in Africana Studies

Joan Anim-Addo: Traveling with Imoinda Above, the cover to Joan Anim-Addo's Imoinda: Or She Who Will Lose Her Name (London: Mango Publishing, 2008). Below, the cover to the 1688 first edition...

Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor

...for an international organization representing indigenous peoples. She studied at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and at Vermont College, where she completed an MFA in creative...

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...industrial explosions, accidents, and spills—an inevitable component of business operations—exceed these legal releases. Efforts to improve overall safety include the international Responsible Care program, started by the chemical industry in...