Shadows along the Waccamaw
...Dan Albergotti lived in St. Matthews until age four, when his family moved to Florence. Albergotti currently directs the creative writing program at Coastal Carolina University in Conway. He earned...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...alternating pieces of two different brown prints, and the fabric on the back is a lively printed stripe. The lines of quilting stitches simply outline the pieced "logs." Many of...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
...the lives of hundreds of thousands of southern workers over several generations. Photo Essay and Video: The Process of Making Cloth This short video follows the process of making unfinished...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...their lives in the southern civil rights movement. Such heroic feats, however, can exaggerate the difference between the religious ethos of northern and southern white Protestants, establishing the popular impression...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
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...
Besieged Terrain
...plants, and unique ecosystems. Native Kentuckian Reece knows natural history and is committed to specific places he lives in and loves. Krupa has the writing skills and broad knowledge to...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...government to ensure that these new entitlements were annulled in the South, where close to ninety percent of African Americans lived during the last half of the nineteenth century. In...
Work
...home, with voices carried in your head of who you leave behind. Here you live out your path with collective memory. Veneer line — I worked for three months between...
The Bulletin—June 26, 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...
Sweep
...lived here all year I'd buy American, I'd drive a truck, and I'm thinking of football and my father's and Mike's words staking out an absence I know I won't...