The Makers of the Sacred Harp
Review Cover of David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan's The Makers of the Sacred Harp, 2010. Shape-note singing from The Sacred Harp tunebook is one of the most vibrant...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket: Video and Essay Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket. A short video by Ben Harmon and Catalina McCormick, 2009. Individuals' experiences in the criminal...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...about the evolving cultural and social landscapes of the Deep South. His photographs have been exhibited throughout the United States, in group exhibitions in Latin America and Europe, and are...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
Rebuilding the Land of Dreams Video Part 2: Spitzer discusses “The Basin Street Blues” and prominent representations of New Orleanians in the realms of work and play Part 3: Spitzer discusses how...
Call for Papers from The Southern Quarterly: Special Issue on "The Mississippi River and Southern Icons"
...as literature, folklore, anthropology, and history. "The South" is defined as the region south of the Mason Dixon Line, including the Caribbean and Latin America. Regular features include reviews of...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...the project; Kevin Glover, Emory web developer; Chris Sawula, history graduate student, ECDS fellow, and photo researcher; and Erica Bruchko, a U.S. history and African American studies librarian at the...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
Review Early in April 2009 the Mexican state of Veracruz identified cases of H1N1 influenza that led, by April 22, to the Mexican health secretary's declaring an influenza epidemic. The...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...the early twenty-first century, has been the mainstay of conservative populism for the past four decades. Republican politicians have successfully pitted "liberal elites" against "middle America," or as Phillips himself...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...statute represents the best of America, it is the Voting Rights Act. It marries two great ideals: democracy and racial equality," she writes.9Regrettably, in referring to the origins of the...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
Introduction Map of Main Indian Removal Routes from James W. Clay, Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989). On May 28, 1830 America’s long-standing policy...