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...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...of Africa, in the development of people, in that which is true and good." Biggers believed Ampofo embodied "the New Africa," linking the continent's past with its future through his...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. South Carolina Electric and Gas (SCE&G) and the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation reached a settlement on August 20 requiring SCE&G to remove 240,000...
A City Divided
...they called "Negro encroachment" and "invasion." When black families continued renting and purchasing homes within Jackson Hill, whites adopted tactics common throughout the urban South and increasingly utilized in the...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...hot spots are categorized by page number and the user can specify a range of pages that will restrict the map's details and move through the events of those pages....
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...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...on to this dream of a career on the legitimate theater stage. The harsh realities of race and gender in America, however, doomed the realization of this dream. Except for...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...visualize the geography of political power. Mark Newman, Paul Dirac Collegiate Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan, released a series of maps and cartograms depicting the state- and...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...history writing while delivering Wise's take on the philosophy of history. Wise rightly warns readers of assuming autobiographical elements in poetry. With meticulous attention and care in charting broad patterns,...
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...