"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...1946 lynching of four young African Americans at Moore’s Ford, near Monroe in Walton County, Georgia. Since 2005 hundreds of people have gathered at several sites in Walton County to...
Seneca Quarry
...The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. Congratulations are in order for Professor Mark Auslander for publishing his well researched and excellent article, "Enslaved Labor and Building the...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Presentation Part 2: Gwin explores temporal and spatial dimensions of mourning, posing questions of how to mourn and celebrate Evers Part 3: Gwin situates aesthetic and ethical responses from Baldwin,...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...SECTION 1. The United States shall create a series of commons communities, each designed to include a specified number of households within a larger landscape that will be managed by...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...
The Bulletin—March 5, 2013
...next day, a suspect named Lawrence Reed was arrested. While the victim's family claims that the murder was "not a random act of violence," officials are not investigating the murder...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. After over a decade of research and surveying, North Carolina and South Carolina have reached an agreement on the official 335-mile border...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...apart from the "official" religious and civic history of the state and the broader cultural ethos.1Campbell Robertson, "Civil Rights Sins, Curated by One of the Sinners," New York Times, April...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
Review In the acknowledgements for The Accidental City, Lawrence N. Powell remembers that, after Hurricane Katrina, pundits asked why New Orleans should be rebuilt, when its site was clearly untenable...
Mississippi Delta
...They practiced small-scale farming and took part in a commercial hunting economy with whites after their arrival around the turn of the nineteenth century. The Delta became officially open to...