Zircon
...where spiders hide in rotting duff. Acknowledgements "Zircon", from DARK ENERGY by Robert Morgan, copyright © 2015 by Robert Morgan. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
Big Ten football has received plenty of criticism in recent years, much of it well deserved. The conference clearly isn't what it used to be, and Marc Tracy recently identified...
The Bulletin—June 26, 2012
...West Bay at the mouth of the Mississippi in the lower Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. The Corps now plans to use sediment dredged from the river to accomplish the same goal...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In North Carolina, the state Supreme Court rejected a request filed by several state organizations asking that recently re-elected Justice Paul Newby recuse...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...on the borderland" (6). He notes that most slaves in Kentucky were acutely aware of the alternatives offered by free black life just across the river because of their proximity...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...and filmmaker Matt Miller uses the realities of Hurricane Katrina to orient his careful and detailed history of New Orleans rap and the intensely local native New Orleans rap style,...
Seneca Quarry
...quarry during the construction of the Smithsonian Castle. While overt evidence confirming that slave labor was used (such as a contract between a slave owner and a contractor to lease...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...and long-lived singing traditions in the US South. First published in 1844 by Georgia compilers B.F. White and E.J. King, the book has been constantly used and occasionally revised. For...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...as they do to rural isolation, commercial underdevelopment, African, British, and Celtic survivals in the New World, and the Lost Cause and other self-conscious efforts to create and shape historical...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...social club called the Jolly Twelve. Old Fourth Ward residence where the Jolly Twelve would gather before going out to a club or house party. Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: Joey...