A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...country and the subsequent development of New Orleans' own distinct sound, importantly asserting that the development of a local and particular rap sensibility began largely with nightclub and block party...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
Debby Holcombe, Cover of booklet for "Georgia Harmonies: Celebrating Georgia Roots Music," 2012. Image courtesy of the Center for Public History, University of West Georgia. On April 14, the exhibition...
A Mess of Poke
...with us in the northeast Georgia mountains when I was in my early teens. She would take a grocery sack on her walks along the country roads near our house...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...2006 far below fifty percent. Elsewhere in the country, only three states—New Mexico, California, and Oregon—had a majority of low-income students. Given recent trends, however, public schools in the western...
Mapping Souths
...closely sealed off from the North geographically, nor a moral unity. It is not a country at all, but a battle slogan.2Karl Marx, "The Civil War in the United States,"...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...used to defend the violence, and the tragic resonance of the violence. Pieced together, these local studies provide a mosaic that illustrates the tragedy of lynching in this country. Up...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...American History at Emory University, specializing in southern history since Reconstruction. He is the author of Strom Thurmond's America (New York: Hill & Wang, 2012) and In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...Solar Initiative" would represent the largest voluntary purchase of solar energy by an investor-owned utility in the country. On September 27, the Arkansas Supreme Court handed down a ruling which...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...