The Border South
...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...evening, some of whom half-jokingly spoke of the incident as the beginning of a new "local tradition." This process was cemented the next weekend at the Poland Convention when an...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...built environment and the experiences of its inhabitants—mark the city's particularities. Increasing numbers of cars, trolleys, buses, and taxis enabled movement between downtown and suburbs; rural and urban areas; "colored"...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. The 2012 United States presidential election results have led mapmakers and illustrators over the past week to search for new ways to...
Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
This week's featured image was inspired by my own search for information about my newly adopted neighborhood of Cabbagetown, a former milltown on Atlanta's east side. With its perilous, narrow...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...Times Book Review as "original, startling," and by Publishers Weekly as "hard-edged and provocative," dealing "directly and explicitly with issues of anger, shame, sexuality, and injustice." Reviewer Joy Parks in...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...the April 26, 2010 issue of Newsweek. Scan by Flickr user MyEyeSees. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bottom, portrait of former Texas Governor Ann Richards at the Texas capitol...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...news, but it was impossible not to notice the violent spray of water knocking and pinning down black protesters. How could water and firemen be so harsh? A week or...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...exactly where I was standing when it all sunk in. I was photographing in Mississippi in early March 2020, on spring break from teaching at Duke, my near annual pilgrimage...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...across the South. The Food for Freedom program, created by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) just a few weeks after the start of...