Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...to colonize blighted houses in the Bywater, washed dishes in their bathtub, never showering, barely wearing shoes. I still have strong familial ties to greater NOLA thanks to my wife,...
The Bulletin—September 21, 2012
...week the Georgia Secretary of State announced that the Georgia State Archives would close effective November 1, 2012. A great deal of protest followed this announcement, including letters from the American...
Glocal Lounge
...Cheryl Temple Herr writes, "Critical-regionalist-cultural studies has great potential for producing a unified but highly adaptive analysis of international flows at the local-regional level, towards the end of a more...
Threshing crew in the Tygart Valley, West Virginia, August 1936
...of agricultural production during the Great Depression. More of Mydans's photographs from the Tygart Valley can be found on the Library of Congress website. Carl Mydans, Threshing crew loading bundles,...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...a week, while offering enhanced printed newspapers on a schedule of three days a week." Residents of greater New Orleans will only be able to read the 175-year old paper...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...strikes him back, and he goes down—a man of great will but little strength. The screen flashes with visions of glaciers melting; Hushpuppy transfers her teacher's parable onto her father's...
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...scholarship, and share great tools and vexing questions. Discuss contemporary and significant issues in the study of the US South. From the redistricting of Texas, to the announcement of a...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...Black. (Herndon at that time was just a little over a year away from launching his greatest venture: Atlanta Life Insurance Company.) To circumvent racial restriction in the American theater,...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
Rebuilding the Land of Dreams Video Part 2: Spitzer discusses “The Basin Street Blues” and prominent representations of New Orleanians in the realms of work and play Part 3: Spitzer discusses how...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores...