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...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials 1871–1872 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996); Nicholas Lemann, Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (New York: Farrar, Straus and...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
Review Children at Play, Mobile, Alabama, 1956. Photograph 37.002 by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation. A grandfather holds his small grandson while his three...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...1950s displaced many Black Atlantans Part 7: Dr. Wiese describes long-term impacts of spatially-oriented discrimination Part 8: Dr. Wiese describes how recent suburbanization in Atlanta and across the US continues to reinforce...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...the living from the eight winds and flung petals of the compass. And I won't assume, much as I've known it certain all along, that I'll never see Grandma again,...
The Change
...for days through thirty acres and chopped them out with hoes. Hoes, made long before from wood and steel and sometimes (even longer ago) from wood and...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...a throat-filled epiphany death licking madness an elegy for mud 4. This is the river of no longer. Here by the side of the Black Warrior, lights are woven through...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...new or surprising material. Writers popular and academic have long served up Cherokee Removal as a measure of an emergent nation's moral capacity.1Significant works include William G. McLoughlin, Cherokees and...
And the Prize Goes to...
...Four of the seventeen participants were graduate students; the remaining were advanced undergraduates. Along with their interest in southern studies, they brought specializations in American studies, journalism, English, history, philosophy,...