The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
...join eighteen other states that have introduced similar laws requiring voter identification at the polls this year. According to The Boston Globe, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas executive...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...flyer at the seventeenth United Kingdom Sacred Harp Convention advertising "American shape-note singing," Winnersh, United Kingdom, 2012. In November, I remarked that "many new singers," such as those in Europe,...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...task. One hopes, given these exciting possibilities, that Tammy Ingram's Dixie Highway could spur further examinations in multiple formats of this crucial transitional period in American transportation history. About the...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...Americans with Disabilities Act, and enable non-expressive uses like comprehensive word searches, text mining, and data analysis. Baer's ruling represented a major victory for the HathiTrust, its affiliates, and fair...
The Bulletin—September 21, 2012
...week the Georgia Secretary of State announced that the Georgia State Archives would close effective November 1, 2012. A great deal of protest followed this announcement, including letters from the American...
Visualizing Spatial History: The Example of Rio de Janeiro
...Part 4: Frank demonstrates the possibilities of HGIS using visualizations from his Terrain of History project About the Author Zephyr Frank is associate professor of Latin American History at Stanford...
Glocal Lounge
...imaginary of the US small town contributes to the ideology of American empire, author Ryan Poll offers a quick overview of the term: At the conclusion of his canonical essay,...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...in the American South (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004); Calvin Schermerhorn, Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011)....
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...doctoral candidate in geography and is pursuing a certificate in American studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her dissertation tracks the dialectical relationship between...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...challenge to homogeneity and a celebration of heterogeneity of cultures, people, and places. Could it be that Tejano and Mexican fishing practices joined Cajun, Anglo, and African American ones at...