Piedmont Blues
...longest-lasting double act in blues history. McTell, Blind Willie McTell (1901-1959) grew up in Statesboro, Georgia, and made his living as a popular street musician. Playing a twelve-string guitar ,...
Failed Memory Exercise
...a block of stores Like a test for names, beginning with the P.O., By which, in late autumn, the loaded wagons came, The colts wheeling behind the great sober mares,...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...most of the states with high rates of low-income students were in the South and West. Thirteen of the twenty-one states with a majority of low-income students were located in...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...cases (26 deaths) of the West Nile virus disease in humans in 43 states so far this year. This number represents the highest total in late August since the CDC...
The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. Farmers and ranchers across the South, Midwest, and West are struggling to bring their crops to harvest and feed their herds. Texas...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. The 2012 United States presidential election results have led mapmakers and illustrators over the past week to search for new ways to...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...his compatriots took up arms against the United States in order to preserve a society based on slave labor and white supremacy. Stephanie Batiste-Bentham, an African American interpreter who worked...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana images
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Dry Fountain and Old State Capitol Completed in 1850, this castle-like Gothic Revival structure served as Louisiana's capitol until 1932. Construction Trailer During the summer of...
"Little Switzerland"
"LITTLE SWITZERLAND, A Private Park that is Visited by a Large Number of People" "In considering the many improvements that are going on in various parts of the city, Little...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
..."Strange Earth: The Stories of Flannery O'Connor." Georgia Review XII (Summer 1958): 216. Although some stories — namely, "The Geranium" and "The Artificial Nigger" — take place in cities such as New...