A Conversation with Digital Historians
...our more civic engagement-oriented projects. We took some inspiration from Karen Halttunen, the former president of the American Studies Association, who called upon scholars to engage in what she called...
Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...[ca 1850] Rosa's Log Cabin Quilt [ ca. 1880] Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905] Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915] Narcissa Benson Narcissa Benson (1828-1881) was the...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...thanks in large part to an information and awareness letter-writing campaign orchestrated by the Chicken Whisperer and the Atlanta Chicken MeetUp group. In Birmingham, a new organization calling itself CLUCK...
Submission Guidelines
...accept submissions that perpetuate or promote social inequality. While we publish many experienced writers and photographers, our journal is dedicated to supporting graduate students, early-career scholars, and activists throughout the...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...In years past, conservative school board candidates had "only tangentially" taken on the district's diversity policy (37). Suburban mayors joined parents in the push to reduce the number of annual...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...Florida, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina, as well as in New Mexico, California, and a few other states outside the South, an increase in the number of Latino children appears...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...how can a homosexual nonbeliever like Harrison, who as a youth was a "Southern Baptist sissy," who dreamed of becoming a southern gospel star until he came out and suffered...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...