Junction City newspaper
...and pitch-forks. In all cases, the dose, if taken, produces wry faces. The strongest republican [sic] journals, like the Atchison Champion, are protesting against the new comers, arguing lustily that...
Belle plaine newspaper
Belle Plaine News. "Shot a Negro." June 8, 1911 "Being arrested for killing a 'nigger' was no doubt a surprise to Mr. Abbott, who, reports have it, has killed other...
Atchison newspaper
Atchison Daily Globe . "The Leavenworth Lynching." January 17, 1901. "Nothing will be done about the Leavenworth lynching. The legislature will adopt resolutions condemning it; the newspapers will refer to...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...published in Bernard Romans's A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida (New York: Bernard Romans, 1775). Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, lccn.loc.gov/2004673312. The...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...and the idea of recasting history for new audiences and times. He discusses how he drew from lived experience in Havana to craft Winter Escapes as well as how his...
When the Border Crossed Me
...already known that Mexican people, men mostly, had started coming to central North Carolina. I knew many of them processed hogs or poultry, and that others worked on dairy or...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...Depot Street, and The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems, recently issued by Pitt Poetry Series. Pratt's latest book, The Dirt She Ate is described by the New York...
The Bulletin—November 29, 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...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...a Region in My Mind," New Yorker, November 17, 1962, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind. "[The people back home] didn't care about us no way," Scott said, speaking of whites' reception of black veterans....
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...