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A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

The Bulletin—June 26, 2012

...the Justice Department to reject similar proposals in Texas and South Carolina earlier this year. The US Supreme Court handed down a ruling yesterday in the case of Fletcher v....

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

Review "Lynching of Negroes is growing to be a southern pastime," declared the Reverend D. A. Graham of the A.M.E. church in a sermon preached in Indianapolis, Indiana, as part...

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...“I myself am from Texas,” writes a child, “though my mother was from Mexico, and my grandmother from the Yucatán, I am proud to be third generation to travel great...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...memory. Karl Hagstrom Miller teaches in both the history department and the school of music at the University of Texas at Austin, and his work speaks persuasively and clearly across...

Winslow Homer and the American Civil War

Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...

Searcy County Livestock Auction

Video and Essay Searcy County. A short video by Noam Osband, 2012. Searcy County is a sparsely populated area in the Ozark region on US Highway 65 between Little Rock,...

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...an imported contagion, claiming, for instance, "that white Texas drovers imported racist violence into the state's cattle towns" (34). White Kansans often asserted that "racist violence would always be foreign—no...