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...
"Little Switzerland"
"LITTLE SWITZERLAND, A Private Park that is Visited by a Large Number of People" "In considering the many improvements that are going on in various parts of the city, Little...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...justice system and prison are frequently sensationalized when they are represented in popular culture and public discourse. The post-prison re-entry process is seldom part of anyone's depiction or discussion. Shannon...
Welcome!
...our website, updated our audio and video, and significantly expanded our readership. As an online journal working at the intersection of a number of scholarly disciplines, we find ourselves in...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
Review In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, clubs in Houston, Dallas, and many other centers of New Orleanian displacement hosted "New Orleans" nights, featuring rap music from the Crescent City....
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Thursday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that it "will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...criticism, memoirs, and its few novels—from this critical neglect. For him, the short life of the Confederate nation-state—surviving only a few brief years—and its relatively modestly-sized literature does not make...
The Border South
...the secession crisis his administration faced upon taking office. He famously observed that "to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game" and considered its neutrality,...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...spent her most productive years at Andalusia. The quiet hours of the morning (specifically, from nine to noon) were devoted, with militant discipline, to writing. Neither O'Connor's mother nor the...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
"The Nation and the Negro," The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, February, 2013. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels III and Paige Knight. "The Nation and the Negro"...