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...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...to create new local traditions drawing on conceptions of their practices as tied to the histories of broad geographical expanses such as the "South" and "America," and to specific times...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...People: Negro Music in White America (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1963), 40-41. Kennedy's "Burnt Church" is part of a series he is creating to commemorate these recent burnings;...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...historians.1Adam Rome, "What Really Matters in History?: Environmental Perspectives on Modern America, "Environmental History 7, no. 2 (2002): 303–318. Scholars have similarly lamented environmental historians' lack of attention to southern...
Editorial Style Guide
...cultural sense, conveying an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa," and among...