Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...mouth is silenced now and it is worth every damn year of this bloody war. How do you like it, hey?" (144–45). Sherman's men destroying railroad, Atlanta, Georgia, 1864. Photograph...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...that state park agencies should do much more to acknowledge and reckon with the history and legacy of Jim Crow. As evidenced by the paltry numbers of black visitors to...
Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
...did Cabbagetown look and feel like between the late nineteenth century and the late 1970s when the neighborhood's industrial identity was in its heyday? Georgia Tech's Fulton Bag and Cotton...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...affected area whose livlihoods are seriously endangered by the dry weather. While the Midwest has been hit hardest by this year's drought, farmers and ranchers in the US South (like the...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...states that seceded believed that it was their right to abandon the United States and to create their own nation in which they became citizens. Like other confederate states, Alabama's...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...New Republic. This distribution of political power is a consequence of the demographic shifts in cities like Atlanta since the Second World War, a topic discussed by Kevin Kruse in...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...for a number of months at Arlington House, explained that visitors sometimes took her aside to ask in hushed tones, "Were there really slaves here?" She also observed that some...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...Hutchison instead offers a number of "themes"—all significant and important—that emerge from Apples and Ashes, including the transnational nature of Confederate literature, the cosmopolitan aspirations of Confederate writers, and the...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...folk remedies, including magical ones like conjure and hoodoo. Weiner acknowledges that this part of her story is less complete than her analysis of medical ideas, because lay people, especially...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...