Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research explores the...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...The fourth section observes how Miami's LGBTQ past extended far beyond the city's borders. It's a story with deep roots in parts of the Caribbean and Latin America and must...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...Press of Mississippi, 1995), Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (New York: W.W. Norton, 2000), and One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia (Chapel Hill: University...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...Lewis, "Sherman Lewis: All-America Halfback and Longtime Coach," Michigan State Official Athletic Site, February 17, 2007, http://www.msuspartans.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/021707aaa.html. During the 1950s, MSU played in and won Rose Bowls in 1954 and...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...addressing the primary question of education in America today: what does it take and what will be done to provide low-income students with a good chance to succeed in public...
The Bulletin—June 19, 2013
...from "briar, meerschaum, clay or corn cob." The newly launched Digital Public Library of America has partnered with the HathiTrust Digital Library. The collaboration will double the size of the collections and will provide...
Crespino's Strom Thurmond: The Last Jim Crow Demagogue and the First Sunbelt Conservative
In this short interview, historian Joseph Crespino discusses his new book, Strom Thurmond's America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of South Carolina politician Strom Thurmond. Crespino explains how...
Remembering Women’s Political Council Member Thelma Glass
...sketch in the Montgomery Advertiser by Erica Pippins. See David J. Garrow, "The Origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott," Southern Changes 7, no. 5 (1985), for an overview of the WPC’s role in the...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...of the Delta and Bayou made up the majority of the exhibit. The work of these photographers reveals the enduring fascination with the cultures and landscapes of rural America while...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...and data from archives with digital technology. The Battle of Atlanta mobile tour website represents a new, interactive way to learn." Erica Bruchko, US history and African American studies librarian...