The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...tons of toxic coal ash from wet-storage impoundments near the Wateree River. The company must move the coal ash into lined landfill storage away from the river or have it...
The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
...ranchers sold nearly 36,000 head of cattle last week, triple the number from a few weeks ago. The Arkansas River Basin has been hit especially hard, which is evident in this map...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...mobs of White men numbering in the thousands chased, beat, and massacred Blacks on the streets of downtown Atlanta. This was the bloody response to erroneous reports of Black men...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...commission, produce and present the most important, ground-breaking, challenging, and exceptional art of our times." Creative Time's projects are almost exclusively temporary.2Creative Time, "About Creative Time," Creative Time, Inc., http://www.creativetime.org/about/index.html...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...influential memoir Lanterns on the Levee, published near the end of his life. Wise remains true to the evidence, excavating a wealth of previously unexamined primary materials, and offering inventive...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...in nearby Wellford. This gift was not named in Narcissa's will, so it may have been presented before the maker's death in 1881. History: The Parlor Mid-nineteenth-century homes included a...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...Many physicians rejected polygenesis and/or questioned the immunity of blacks to tropical diseases. Nearly all agreed, however, that black bodies responded differently to disease than white bodies. Both suffered from...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...University of Texas at Austin, examines several episodes of epidemic disease occurring among the towns lining the Texas-Mexican border across nearly a century. He argues that these medical emergencies expose...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) have launched the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project, a database of all known runaway slave ads in North Carolina newspapers between 1751 and...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...topics covered when histories of America's recent past are written and discussed. To a large extent, first drafts of our national COVID-19 history have been assembled, produced in near real-time...