And the Prize Goes to...
...skills for critical reading and reflecting. For the rest of the course, to highlight best practices for the study of the South, we considered approach, research design, genealogy of scholarship, and...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...that the most significant change between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries was a shift from a political economy based on maize surplus, which in turn created hierarchical relations between villages...
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. Some important William Faulkner archival material is going up for auction in New York. Considered one of the most significant literary figures...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...The implications of this trend are far-reaching. It indicates persisting economic hardship for a large number of families with school-age children, signaling that children who usually have the largest educational...
The Bulletin—November 1, 2012
...to get "souls to the polls" were energized by the decision to eliminate six days of early voting which was legislated by the Republican State Legislature and signed into law...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Thursday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that it "will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...these associations, and due to their black and white format, consign them to the distant past. Mediated by this representation, the South itself becomes separated from the present. In color,...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...Editor's Introduction: 'The Necessary Utterance'—Natasha Trethewey's Southern Poetics," The Southern Quarterly 50, no. 4 (Summer 2013): 7, http://www.usm.edu/southern-quarterly-literary-magazine/intros/504guestedintro.pdf. signaling how the southern and spatial contexts in which she grew up...
New Website for Music Memory
...partnering with Ledbetter. Although the music that eventually will populate Music Memory is not yet accessible to users, the site provides a first glimpse at Music Memory's layout and design....
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...digital technologies featured in documentary forms and ethnography Projects that deploy data visualization (including data sets, network maps) critical GIS universal design text analysis "Neither Flat Nor Round," THAT Camp...