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,...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...of The Indian Heritage of America and many other important books about Native Americans. Snyder was there and when he found out I was from South Carolina, he smiled and...
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)....
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...Modes of Resistance: A Review of Hypercities." Southern Spaces, September 15, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/spatial-humanities-and-modes-resistance-review-hypercities. Battle, Mary. "Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative." Southern Spaces, October 6,...
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...
Seneca Quarry
...couldn't pay back. The quarry's bankruptcy in 1876 helped bring down the Freedman's Bank, wiping out the savings of some 400,000 freed slaves and exacerbating poverty among African Americans for...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...Gazette-Mail (WV), April 12, 1994; "All About Business," Charleston Daily Mail (WV), April 26, 1994. Utility companies recognized the importance of obtaining quality coal as cheaply as possible. For example, American...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...years with the increasingly terse genre categories of writing: Chick Lit, Grunge Lit, or speaking of the American South, Grit Lit. I have to admit deep suspicion of easy taxonomy....