Ossabaw Island Flyover
...the island, but most moved to the mainland after the Sea Island Hurricane of 1893. Many of their descendants today comprise the Gullah-Geechee community in Pin Point, Georgia. Through the...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
Greetings by Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey introduces the 2014 Callaloo Conference. I am Natasha Trethewey, the Director of the Creative Writing Program and I’m pleased to welcome you to this...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...Franklin counties) as microcosms of the crusade to ban alcohol in Florida. Across the South, county by county and state by state, the drys were winning the day. Leon County...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...Today, the area has become a prominent suburban enclave near Atlanta's urban center. Celebrated landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted drew the original plans for Druid Hills in the late nineteenth...
The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Tuesday, June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court ruled five–four to strike down section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965....
Murray Mountain, North Carolina
...days it was going to be a school bus with our children. So we agree 100% that something needed to be done. All those tractor-trailers on that mountain is just...
Mapping Souths
...his map of the South, too, terminates in a project of warfare, this one to suppress the South's revolutionary intentions. Today, the positions staked out by Trescot and Marx seem...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
Essay Another Mother's Day has come and gone and still no officially supported memorial honors the Freedom Riders at the site where civil rights workers braved the vicious firebombing of...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
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