US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces
Natasha Trethewey interviewing Elizabeth Alexander, 2009. From Southern Spaces. This week, Natasha Trethewey was named the United States Poet Laureate. As we celebrate and congratulate her, we wanted to take...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...Haley announced that she will appoint Congressman Tim Scott (R-Charleston) to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by Republican Senator Jim DeMint. When he is sworn into office in...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...Public Schools." Southern Education Foundation (2015). http://www.southerneducation.org/Our-Strategies/Research-and-Publications/New-Majority-Diverse-Majority-Report-Series/A-New-Majority-2015-Update-Low-Income-Students-Now. ———. "Update A New Majority: Low Income Students in the South and Nation." Southern Education Foundation (2013). http://www.southerneducation.org/News-and-Events/posts/April-2014/Juvenile-Justice-Education-Programs-in-the-United-aspx.aspx. ———. "A New Majority: Low...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...of jazz, brass band, R&B, and funk (as well as blues and zydeco). What might all be lumped into the single category of "hiphop" in other parts of the United...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...worked in the music printing company Kieffer's grandfather, the Mennonite Joseph Funk, owned. The two reunited over a shared love of shape-note singing and a desire to reclaim "the pastoral...
The Bulletin—January 29, 2013
...violated the Tenth Amendment and Article IV of the United States Constitution." The case involves the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed suit on behalf of the Alabama State Conference...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...road, "Poor Monkey's Road." Tour groups stop here regularly, as do college students on field trips from around the United States. NOTE: In early spring 2006, Seaberry started calling the...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
...291,261; January 1, 1884) P.M. Stevens, Roller Coasting Device (U.S. Patent 298,710; May 18,1884) Early Roller Coaster Patents circa 1884 gif images United States Patent and Trademark Office ...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...and Technology Camp) Feminisms South. On the first day of our unconference we edited and wrote Wikipedia articles along with others across the United States, particularly at THATCamp Feminisms West...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...Star State, across the South, and indeed, across the entire United States, were vigorously undoing the gains achieved by blacks during the Civil War and Reconstruction, all the while imposing...