"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...
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...
Welcome!
...our website, updated our audio and video, and significantly expanded our readership. As an online journal working at the intersection of a number of scholarly disciplines, we find ourselves in...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...Wilson's Patriotic Gore (1962), studies of the literature of the Civil War have paid far more attention to the North. Hutchison seeks to rescue the Confederacy's literature—its poems, songs, literary...
The Border South
...black and white. Civil Rights Movement If the sectional crisis helped define the Border South and the Civil War tested its loyalties, the region's role in the struggles over civil...