The US South and the 2008 Election
...is often difficult, however, distinguishing between what is truly notable historically and that which is mere post-election chatter. Map of the Sunbelt (marked in red) One noteworthy aspect of the...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...of my perception were cleansed, it was by poetry. My friend John Featherston, certifiably one of Spartanburg's first hippies, says I really didn't miss much. There never really was a...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...a conclusion which is disappointingly summative. Third, Behnken occasionally falls back upon language which reinforces the whiteness which has been, in part, a focus of his study. Perhaps unwittingly, he...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...this endeavor is Peel's manuscript collection. Originally from North Carolina, Peel moved to Atlanta in 1976 where, as a person with HIV, he experienced first-hand both the devastating effects of...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...system was not really valid anyway, since it only received fifty-one rather than the required fifty-three votes in the House and was filed late. It is unclear now where the...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...some material from the presidency of Martin Luther King, III (1997–2003). The records starkly display the differences in leadership styles, particularly between Abernathy and Lowery. Researchers can also chart the...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...the off-putting label "Toxic Town USA." A bitterly contested fight over the chemical weapons incinerator at the Anniston Army Depot, where military personnel and civilian employees are destroying deadly Cold...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...Nonne’s role in reprinting this piece. Over the next half-century Germans wrote extensively about the United States, particularly about the Louisiana Purchase and its suitability for settlement. Heinrich Schmidt, ca. 1850s....
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...gestures or queerest tropes" (142–143). In Then Sings My Soul he attempts nothing less than to "reimagine southern gospel music as abidingly indebted to a fundamentally queer aesthetic"—not simply a...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...annual, highly profitable mega-event. Who defines cultural authenticity in the context of the highly contested terrain of the festival, and to what end? The authors conclude this section by offering...