The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
...ranchers sold nearly 36,000 head of cattle last week, triple the number from a few weeks ago. The Arkansas River Basin has been hit especially hard, which is evident in this map...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...his "experiences of sexual freedom possible. His wealth allowed him to travel around the world, and that wealth was created in large part by black slaves and sharecroppers. His vision...
Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...located east and west of downtown. Although most were common laborers, a small number, perhaps less than ten percent, stood above the masses by virtue of their occupation, education, or...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001); Carol Anderson, Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...the center of historical investigations into matters of culture, education, identity, and labor. Across five chapters that illuminate localized Latino histories in Alabama, DC, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South...
Antietam
...button, a bullet, a tooth migrating to the surface. We searched around. On our way back to the bus a boy tripped me and I fell— skidding hard along the...
New Orleans, Louisiana images
...Bourbon Street, French Quarter Strip joints and sex shows are among Bourbon Street's famous attractions. Tourists Posing for Pictures St. Louis Cathedral, at the head of Jackson Square, is in...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
...to reach on foot. During their spring 2015 trip, Page and Martin found places where alligators walk from their dens through nearby salt marshes, then return. Rather than trying to...
Whiskey and Geography
...single packhorse profitable, whereas grain alone or most any other farm product could barely pay for the trip. On the western Pennsylvania and Virginia frontiers, whiskey sold for twenty-five cents...