Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...half of the United States will emerge with a majority of low-income students within the next five to seven years. Currently, such students constitute forty-six percent of US public school...
Mapping Souths
...lines.1William Henry Trescot, "The Position and Course of the South" (Charleston: Steam Power-Press of Walker and James, 1850), 8. Trescot's geographical logic struck a reviewer for DeBow's as absurd. "Would...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...the 1974 Wales Miners' Strike, part of a series of national mining strikes across the United Kingdom. When Gaventa returned to the United States, sociologist Helen Lewis invited him to show the...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...havoc on farmers and ranchers across a broad swath of the United States. On Monday the United States Department of Agriculture announced that it would buy $170 million of pork,...
The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
...temperatures and the worst drought in the continental United States since the 1950s. NOAA's report and a study they completed with a similar agency in the United Kingdom suggest that...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...Garner, 1867. Painting by Thomas Noble. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-84545. It was this reality posited by Salifia that also explains why, as the...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. October 1 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the integration of the University of Mississippi. A number of media outlets reflected upon how...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...is the author of Crescent Rivers: Waterways of Florida's Big Bend (University Press of Florida, 1998). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in photography, three Individual Artist Fellowships...
The Border South
...of a border began to take shape. G. Woolworth Colton, Detail from Map of the United States of America, Original version available at The Library of Congress Maps Collection. Historians,...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...miles away on the plains."1Michael C. Robinson, "Natural Disasters," in The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 1, ed. Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris (New York: Anchor Books, 1989), 584....