The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...Court’s decision adds momentum to the school choice movement that has been lobbying in Washington and the state capitols to increase public funding of private schools through programs that often...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...the Sons of Temperance, the Washington Temperance Society, the Good Order League, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the Anti-Saloon League. Interesting characters make unexpected appearances. The author explains how...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...symposium will be held April 4, 2014 at Georgia State University and will feature presentations by, among others, Clarence Stone, Research Professor at George Washington University and author of Regime...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
Interview Part 2: Morgan reads “Backwater” and discusses his history of coming to terms with his origins Part 3: Morgan reads “Heaven” and discusses the place of nostalgia in his poetry Part...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Howell Homes, center, Techwood Homes, left, Georgia Institute of Technology, bottom. Atlanta, Georgia, circa 1940. Photocopy of photograph. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, HABS GA,61-ATLA,63--2. View of playground...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...and Spanish colonialism. The Tremé developed around Congo Square as one of the first neighborhoods of free people of color in the United States in the late eighteenth century.1For more...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...the past few thousand years, wraps around the southern and northeastern corners of the island. Ossabaw Island in the Sea Islands Watershed. Original map courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...within black Protestant traditions, as did the religiously motivated activism of Mississippi stalwarts such as Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark, and Medgar and Myrlie Evers. Breaking ground on the Mississippi...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...