History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...made a career of heralding the significance of the city's cultural and historic neighborhoods. In Bourbon Street, he turns his attention to the city's most iconic thoroughfare and its development...
The Bulletin—June 19, 2013
...education, health care, and social programs, as well as proposed voter ID laws. Nearly five hundred protestors have been arrested so far. Though Governor Pat McCrory has characterized protests as "fueled by...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...frontier into Mexico’s northeastern flank. A decade of careful politicking in Congress finally made annexation a reality and was, in Karp’s words, "the quintessential achievement of the foreign policy of...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...gender roles as she begins the song dressed as a stereotypical providing "suga daddy" rather than a "suga mama": "And I've always been the type to take care of mine...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...accelerated efforts towards desegregation and modernization in the healthcare professions in Charleston. Exhibitions such as Voyage of the Echo: The Trials of an Illegal Trans-Atlantic Slave Ship by John Harris...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...rights, and spaces demographic shifts in urban, suburban, and rural populations immigration, refugees, and citizenship incarceration, internment, and the carceral state public health, healthcare policy and access climate change and...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...sings, like a southern girl struggling to speak a foreign tongue, "Be careful. Be caw . . . tious." Drawing out the "caw" until it mimics the sound of a...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...suffering that individuals and communities endured, Villanueva treats his subjects with care, ensuring that readers regard the victims as human beings rather than statistics. Scholars of lynching looking for a...
How I Shed My Skin
...I Shed My Skin carefully and candidly calibrates levels of fear and knowing among his fellow white southerners. As he demonstrates, whites with disabilities in Jones County, including his father,...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
Blog post Mother Jones died ninety years ago, but she was back in Alabama this July. It was not her first visit to the state. She came to Birmingham and...