An Oyster by Any Other Name
...Pass. The sheer number of oysters in one place was notable, however the history came from the laminated nametags accompanying each sampling of oysters. Rather than numeric codes in fine...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. October 1 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the integration of the University of Mississippi. A number of media outlets reflected upon how...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
Essay For the first time in over forty years, low-income children constitute a majority of public school students in the US South. Public schools in the fifteen states designated as...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...of Africa, in the development of people, in that which is true and good." Biggers believed Ampofo embodied "the New Africa," linking the continent's past with its future through his...
The Change
...the petals with our bare, calloused, hands and twisting downward, quick, hard, only one time, snapped them off. Before edgers and herbicides took what they call weeds, when we walked...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...that informed his fiction, the history that underlies Darktown, and the uses of history and fiction in understanding place and time. Interview About the Interviewer Joseph Crespino is Jimmy Carter Professor of...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...and constructed, and how they have been, or should be, defined. At the same time, he demonstrates that the definition of this particular border was always subject to shifting exigencies...
Anniversary
...the time of the recording of these videos, he was an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Denver, where he directed the creative writing program. York's books...
Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean Perspective
...worked extensively on coral reef ecology, especially the biology, ecology, and assessment of Floridian and Caribbean coral reefs. His research and expertise has brought him to testify before Congress five times on...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...the only works in the collection created by African Americans, works which were acquired recently or entered the collection accidentally. The boxes are laid out as a rough timeline based...