The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
...accepted for publication." MLA Executive Director Rosemary G. Feal suggested that the change might encourage open access to humanities scholarship more broadly. Also, the American Historical Association announced the establishment of...
On Fair Use
The doctrine of "fair use" is an increasingly important concept for scholars, libraries, and universities as digital technologies continue to change the ways that we research, publish, and teach in...
Remembering Women’s Political Council Member Thelma Glass
...sketch in the Montgomery Advertiser by Erica Pippins. See David J. Garrow, "The Origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott," Southern Changes 7, no. 5 (1985), for an overview of the WPC’s role in the...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky, July 27, 2009. Photograph by Jason Meredith. Courtesy of Jason Meredith. All of this supports Salafia's central premise: that this economic exchange and racial activity...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...United States into an insistently coherent imaginary South, late nineteenth-century periodical culture offered a screen onto which national fears about rapid social change could be projected. Most broadly, then, this...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...the continued resilience of white supremacy, Mississippi Praying closes by arguing that Christian moral suasion did little to effect change. For Dupont, the "holy symbiosis" of white supremacy and evangelicalism...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...compelled to contend and collaborate with one another constantly on the overlapping, interlocked terrain of neighborhoods. To examine how neighborhoods change our understanding of slave society, consider the ways this...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...because the private sector could not meet the needs of the lowest income tenants—either in quantity or affordability of rental units. This has not changed. Even as HUD approved the...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...and indigo plantations, as well as at his Charleston home on Meeting Street. As a reminder that racism persists in many guises, even as it changes form, Page's installation links...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...restore or maintain the forest's original domain across the South. In discussing private ownership of forests and wood production, the authors do not account for the enormous changes of recent...