Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
...using the collection's browse function, I discovered a number of striking images of my neighborhood, including an unattributed photograph from the early twentieth century depicting a store called Red J....
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...The implications of this trend are far-reaching. It indicates persisting economic hardship for a large number of families with school-age children, signaling that children who usually have the largest educational...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...but Congress and federal courts often referred to both a rebellion and a war between nations.3For more see, James G. Randall, Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1964), 62–73,...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...a team that breaks into groups of two to three to deal with each work. Until now, we have considered only short stories, but in teams of six we're starting...
The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
...ranchers sold nearly 36,000 head of cattle last week, triple the number from a few weeks ago. The Arkansas River Basin has been hit especially hard, which is evident in this map...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...of modern reenactment, the staging of US Civil War battles, developed in the late 1950s and the early 1960s, as men dressed in Civil War uniforms joined with the North-South...
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...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...the "higher . . . 'burden of proof' for homosex." "Historians," Wise writes, "often assume historical subjects were heterosexual until proven otherwise." These commentaries amount to an extended meditation on...
Brushes with War
...Winslow Homer. Courtesy of the Portland Museum of Art, 1992.41. Near Andersonville, 1866. Oil on Canvas by Winslow Homer. Courtesy of the Newark Musem, 66.354. Prisoners from the Front, 1866....
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...House, a National Park Service historic site and pre–Civil War home of the Custis-Lee family outside of Washington, DC, address the subject of slavery and Robert E. Lee as a...