The Bulletin—August 9, 2012
...August 7, seven-hundred members of the United Steelworkers Local 5668 who work for the Constellium rolled aluminum plant in Ravenswood, West Virginia went on strike. The workers voted to strike...
Remnants of Flannery
...roots of Lincoln's antislavery crusade following his realization of this in New Orleans; and the television series The Vampire Diaries, set in Virginia and largely filmed in Georgia, among many...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...Homann, "Virginia Marylandia et Carolina in America Septentrionali Britannorum industria excultae . . .," 1715. Via Wikimedia Commons. This next map illustrates the border between the colonies of North Carolina...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Delta region, but a commission from her local doctor. Coming from the “hills of West Virginia,” the doctor found the flatlands stunning and mysterious. He wanted Clay to make photographs...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...occurred at predominantly black rural churches from Arkansas to Virginia, targeted the very places that writer Amiri Baraka has described as the "social focal points" of black life.3LeRoi Jones, Blues...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
Readings Patrick Phillips reads "Brass Knuckles." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "The Chimney." Poem text. Patrick Phillips reads "The Flood." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "Heaven." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads an excerpt...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
...Studies from Yale University and is an assistant professor in English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Our South (2010, Harvard University Press)....
"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
...conference and Popham's biography. A Virginia native, Popham was sent by the New York Times to cover the US South in the mid-twentieth century. In 1958, after twenty-five years on...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...Earl Dotter, Environmental activist volunteers, Raleigh County, West Virginia, 2005. From Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining and the Environment. Southern Spaces editors will work with authors, photographers, artists, and videographers in...