The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
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...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...Captain Simon Suggs, the 1845 creation of Johnson Jones Hooper: "It is good to be shifty in a new country." The genre of southwestern humor is the first of a...
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
Series editor: Mary E. Frederickson, Emory University. Submission deadline: March 31, 2015. Questions: Contact managing editor Jesse P. Karlsberg. From Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci, "The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...photography's historical role in the construction of African American identity. As a relatively new mechanical medium, training in early photography was not restricted by racially limited access to academic fine...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...Los Angeles to New York to New Haven. Not content with just being a talented actor, Franco has spent the last few years trying to fashion himself into an arts...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...they nor the "keywords" themselves are intended to approach taxonomic precision. For similar reasons, we have avoided—although some contributors have not—the term "New Southern Studies," which carries, at least implicitly,...
Naming Each Place
...work of other black writers Part 3: Trethewey and Brown discuss writing against the New Critics Part 4: Trethewey and Brown discuss working and hanging out in New Orleans and more Part...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...bridge at Sams Gap, Sams Gap, NC, 2001. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT supervisors discussing work on the new Visitor Center, Sams Gap, NC, 2003. Photo courtesy of Rob...