Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...They also expanded their geographical range, claiming in one advertisement that "All Florida Is Our Territory." By mid-century they had become the leading commercial photography firm in the state. Burgert...
Horton newspaper
Horton Commercial, reprinted in Topeka Plaindealer. "Lynching Dead Negroes." January 31, 1902. "Had this lynching of a dead Negro occurred in Louisiana or Texas, it would be termed 'another Democratic...
And the Prize Goes to...
Elizabeth Engelhardt. Photograph by Marsha Miller. Courtesy of the University of Texas. At the end of the Spring 2015 semester, seventeen students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012
...mountaintop removal mining operations in Kentucky and West Virginia arguing that "in Appalachia . . . the Clean Water Act is not being enforced." Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant announced today...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Los Angeles. © Richard Misrach. For me, the petrochemical culture of southeastern Louisiana is epitomized by the pipe rack, one of which photographer Richard Misrach captures in plate 23 of...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...comfortable "back east" and in such august company. To Hardwig's mind, this image elegantly captures the "enormous gulf between the communities depicted in Murfree's dialect stories about the Tennessee mountains...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...Mississippi, 2004) and Mississippi Forests and Forestry (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001), among other books. His book Green Gold: Alabama's Forests and Forest Industries is forthcoming from University of...
Country Music Scholar
Video Part 2: Malone discusses enrolling at the University of Texas, the Austin folk revival, and his dissertation, Country Music USA Part 3: Malone discusses variation in country music style, contrasting the...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...miners from the 1960s and 1970s. See Dotter's 2008 Southern Spaces piece "Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment," in which he revisits and photographs some of the same towns featured...
The Bulletin—June 26, 2012
...West Bay at the mouth of the Mississippi in the lower Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. The Corps now plans to use sediment dredged from the river to accomplish the same goal...