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...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...ran an influential eight-part series on the decline of the port in 1982. See Christopher Drew, "Flagship of Area's Economy Losing Out to Hustling Rivals," The Times-Picayune, June 13, 1982....
Seneca Quarry
1823 Seneca Quarry workmen payroll. 1823 payroll. National Archives & Records Administration, Records Group 42: Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, 1790–1992....
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...the impulses to retain local control and resist bond- or license-driven statewide funding of highway construction reigned supreme. Ingram details how voters in the 1926 gubernatorial election elevated a pay-as-you-go...
When the Border Crossed Me
Video Charles D. Thompson, Los Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time, 2014. Reflection My border odyssey began in 1985 on a farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina. On a hot summer...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...American politics wasn't that difficult. The key was to figure out who hates whom — "That is the secret." This formula, which reached its apotheosis in the Rovean politics of...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
...a PhD student in the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University. His research interests include twentieth-century southern culture, documentary film production, and NASCAR's impact on contemporary American culture....
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...in the documentary arts, and ordinarily will hold an academic appointment in the appropriate department in Duke's School of Arts and Sciences. Read more: www.documentarystudies.duke.edu. DEADLINE: September 1, 2012. To...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...September 11, 1961. Screenshot courtesy of Eric Solomon. Bottom, Rainbow crosswalks, corner of 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2017. Photograph by Eric Solomon. Courtesy of Eric Solomon....
Geography
...Poetry. In 2003, her second collection Bellocq's Ophelia won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. She...