Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
Same-Sex Intimacy in the Fiction of Southern Plantations Part 2: Bibler refers to Gaines’s novel Of Love and Dust, focusing on how same-sex relations can disrupt plantation hierarchies Part 3:...
Rising Up
Video Community Ideas Station, Excerpt from Rising Up, 2005....
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...eight large crazy-pieced blocks arranged around the central star. Starting in the center of each nineteen-inch foundation square, Nannie worked outward, adding pieces by hand, until the foundation was covered....
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...the elephant, O'Brien approaches the South as "centrally an intellectual perception . . . which has served to comprehend and weld an unintegrated social reality," observing that the idea of...
The Bulletin—September 21, 2012
...Historical Association and the Society of American Archivists, the Association of Canadian Archivists, and others. Georgia would have been the only state in the nation to close its central state archives....
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Atlanta, 1880–1950. The symposium seeks to convene an interdisciplinary meeting of scholars and activists to learn from and act on research about Atlanta, including the central city and its metropolitan...
Besieged Terrain
...the largest remaining parcels of Appalachian Mixed Mesophytic Forest. Moist, broad-leaf forest, the Mixed Mesophytic extends on the Appalachian Plateau from northern Alabama, through east central Tennessee, western North Carolina,...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...sisters pose for the camera as just to the right of the central triptych a little boy hoes a patch of bare dirt in the background. In the middle, Ruth...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...Lewis (now a congressman from Atlanta). In 1957, Campbell was present at the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock and at the first meeting of the Southern Christian...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...painstaking "by the print" method. In each bandanna, she quilted a line down the center of the figured white handkerchief border, and added parallel lines on either side. The central...