Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
...Richard White is the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University. He has written widely about the American West, Native American History and environmental history. He has won...
"Aint that Something?"
...Dawn Jewell makes Trampoline unforgettable. "Who is it about if it aint about us?," © Robert Gipe, 2015. Originally published in Trampoline (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015), 285. This material...
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. Some important William Faulkner archival material is going up for auction in New York. Considered one of the most significant literary figures...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
... Top, Georgia, from the latest authorities, 1795. Map by William Barker and Mathew Carey. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, loc.gov/resource/g3860.ct001247. Bottom, Map of the...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...with many US cities beginning in the late 1960s. Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the segregation-era black enclave around U Street was left gutted by rioters, a...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...and director Shelia Washington, Scottsboro, Alabama, 2011. Ellen Spears, Aggie Kapelma announcing the donation of David Scribner's papers, Scottsboro, Alabama, 2011. New Yorker Aggie Kapelma presented the museum with...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
Southern Spaces is pairing with Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) to publish short features on MARBL collections, events, and exhibits that tell the history of spaces...
Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.
...his archival holdings in the African American collections at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Best known for artist books that narrate African American history in striking...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...January, Tim Scott will be the only African American in the Senate and just the fifth to serve since Reconstruction. Scott is the first African American Senator in South Carolina's...