The Bulletin—March 5, 2013
...as a hate crime. As the Chicago Tribune reported, McMillian was "one of the first viable, openly gay" candidates in the state. On February 7, 2013, one hundred forty-eight years after the...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...use advocates. Below is a "score card" of the results of the ruling written by Matthew Sag, an Associate Professor of Law at Loyola University of Chicago who is an expert...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
Review As a scholar born in the US South who has spent much of my career teaching southern history, I have often longed for a moratorium on romanticized discussions of...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...and longtime civil-rights activist Faya Rose Touré. "That's why you don't see black people here."2Phillip Rawls, "McCain Takes GOP Campaign into Rural Alabama Democratic Turf," Associated Press, April 21, 2008;...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...Seaberg holds up the reel of J.B. Lenoir footage she and her husband shot in Chicago in 1965. The Soul of a Man, 2003. In the documentary tradition, archival footage...
Single Centers of Creation?
Essay Detail from Nancy Lowe, Source, Species Icons exhibit, Schatten Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009. Introduction In this sampling from ORIGIN, a collaborative exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
Review Rowan County Court House and Jail, Salisbury, North Carolina, circa 1905-1915. Courtesy of the Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at...
Six Yellow Stanzas
...and brown, and black.) Sunless flesh or sunshine flesh. I startle myself with my yellowness next to your black but say none of this, and lick your skin 'til yellow-...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
...this interview, conducted during the 2009 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Chicago, Illinois, Patrick Phillips talks with Natasha Trethewey about his poetry. Subjects of conversation include...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...religious landscape: an overriding desire on the part of the growing Anglo population to restrain evil as they understood it; a desire to advance civilization by way of a rugged...