Casino, Ponce de Leon Park
Advertisement for Ponce de Leon Park Casino and Ostrich Farm, Atlanta Constitution, 1906. circa 1908 circa 1910 The sign below the circle swing reads: "Ponce de Leon is a private...
Stones and Shadows
1. Visiting the Stone The air in the car is thick and still. My father makes a right turn through the cemetery gates, giving me a significant look. I don't...
The Dirt Eaters
Southern Tradition of Eating Dirt Shows Signs of Waning —headline, The New York Times, 2/14/84 tra dition wanes I read from North ern South: D.C. Never ate dirt but I...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...many others. A line of tubas, a man with a red tuba, all the celebrants filled with sorrow, but also exalting Tuba Fats with signs and pictures, in fine suits...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...from the first murmurs of dissension sparked by Abraham Lincoln's election through the "storm of cheers" that greeted the signing of the Ordinance of Secession in November 1860 to the...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...as having experienced the least disruption (urban hires). This makes for a systematic, if somewhat predictable, presentation. Still, as Pargas explains, "the intention is not to place undue weight on...
And the Prize Goes to...
...skills for critical reading and reflecting. For the rest of the course, to highlight best practices for the study of the South, we considered approach, research design, genealogy of scholarship, and...
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...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...The implications of this trend are far-reaching. It indicates persisting economic hardship for a large number of families with school-age children, signaling that children who usually have the largest educational...
The Bulletin—November 1, 2012
...to get "souls to the polls" were energized by the decision to eliminate six days of early voting which was legislated by the Republican State Legislature and signed into law...