The Bulletin—February 11, 2013
...groups that had longer waits than their counterparts (whites, Republicans, non-urban dwellers). As reported in The New York Times, long waiting times depressed turnout in states like Florida, where residents waited an average...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...brown-and-yellow stripe, appears to have been reused from an earlier use. She sewed together three lengths of the twenty-five-inch-wide fabric, but that apparently proved insufficient. Along one long edge, a...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Al. A few years later, Al sold out the entire company to his nephew Thel Burgert and longtime employee Al Severson. Severson became the sole owner in the 1950s. He...
Pratt newspaper
Pratt Republican. "A Bad State of Affairs." September 8, 1910. "Now the Republican always stands for law and against any form of mob law. It concedes the right of a...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...Gulfport, Mississippi, 2005." Southern Spaces, September 1, 2008, https://southernspaces.org/2008/barge-washed-ashore-after-hurricane-katrina-gulfport-mississippi-2005. Moye, Dorothy. "Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition." Southern Spaces, August 26, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/katrina-5-x-code-exhibition. ———. "The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript." Southern...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...and longtime civil-rights activist Faya Rose Touré. "That's why you don't see black people here."2Phillip Rawls, "McCain Takes GOP Campaign into Rural Alabama Democratic Turf," Associated Press, April 21, 2008;...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...the sense that this could be happening to any of us. That is what I was thinking. The sheriff's deputy sat in his car at the curb all day long....
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...activists. Others, as exemplified in Lynching Beyond Dixie, have researched lynching outside the South. Historians of the West have long studied vigilantism, but new scholarship on lynching draws connections between...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...before the tragedy, places recent gun violence within a much longer history of social, political, and environmental threats that have failed to effect Bourbon Street's oft-predicted demise: "It has survived...