Stones and Shadows
...ask why. "The mausoleum keeps expanding," he says, without irony. "Have you ever been to a filing? Your mother and I went to our first last week." I give him...
And the Prize Goes to...
...its contest winner. Journals used in Engelhardt's class, courtesy of the author. Throughout the semester, the class read one to two books weekly (all published after 2010), working collaboratively to...
The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
...weeks and forced all abortion sites to register as ambulatory surgical centers. Davis previously filibustered a budget that saw huge cuts to education for eight hours. Although that budget ultimately...
The Bulletin—September 21, 2012
...week the Georgia Secretary of State announced that the Georgia State Archives would close effective November 1, 2012. A great deal of protest followed this announcement, including letters from the American...
Threshing crew in the Tygart Valley, West Virginia, August 1936
This series of Carl Mydans photographs depicting wheat farmers in the Tygart Valley of West Virginia struck us as particularly interesting, so we decided to post it as this week's...
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012
..."all but one of sixty-five representatives from the southeastern states." Also this week, the Sierra Club and Kentuckians for the Commonwealth challenged permits granted under the Clean Water Act for...
The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
This week's Bulletin focuses on recent announcements in publishing and digital scholarship. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding these issues. The Modern...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...his discovery of Milledgeville, “The State House Aflame 1833,” Flannery O’Connor Part 3: Hill discusses imagining Milledgeville while resisting the lure of nostalgia, and writing about the women in his family...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Louis Hollis was chair of the deacon board as well as a staffer for the White Citizens' Council and its weekly regional paper the Citizens' Councilor, and several generations of...
Geography
...of books beneath his arm. It’s 1971, the last year we’re still together. My mother and I travel this road, each week, to meet him— I-10 from Mississippi to New...