The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...memorial to homosexuals persecuted under the Nazi regime and Paul Harfleet's ongoing public interventions from The Pansy Project in the U.K. Taken together, these works demonstrate an intense desire, in...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...in this piece by Sommer Mathis writing in The Atlantic Cities, about the importance of cities in deciding the election. Metropolitan areas in the US South and elsewhere in the interior...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...Boston theatre with Percy and Harold Bruff; it is to sit in vexed watchfulness at the Washington County Historical Society in Mississippi; it is to ride on trains and steamships,...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana images
...2004, there were a number of construction projects underway in downtown Baton Rouge. Tourist on Docked Riverboat Modern-day riverboats, decorated like their nineteenth-century predecessors, transport tourists up and down...
"Little Switzerland"
"LITTLE SWITZERLAND, A Private Park that is Visited by a Large Number of People" "In considering the many improvements that are going on in various parts of the city, Little...
Welcome!
...interested people. Please contact seditor@emory.edu if you are interested in writing for us. Finally, we are excited to include a commenting feature on our blog. For years, we have discussed...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...seen a meteoric rise in popularity post-Katrina. While Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans is indeed the first book of its kind on the subject, its importance...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...majority-white districts in which African Americans make up at least 25% from eleven to six, in this helpful interactive map. The US Department of Labor is investigating Florida's implementation of...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...to the local, sectional, international, and transnational. In a first chapter on literary criticism in the Southern Literary Messenger from the 1830s into the 1850s, Hutchison convincingly disrupts arguments that...