Sweep
...lived here all year I'd buy American, I'd drive a truck, and I'm thinking of football and my father's and Mike's words staking out an absence I know I won't...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...History"), changes to voting laws in southern states have been employed by legislators to deny African Americans and other minorities the franchise across the US South. Suitts's piece describes what...
Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Alabama, 2003
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In the wake of the Supreme Court's recent ruling on the Affordable Care Act, we found this helpful map from the American Constitution Society for...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
Review To borrow a line from Joel and Ethan Coen's seminal slacker classic, The Big Lebowski, James Franco "draws a lotta water in this town."1 If you don't believe me,...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...late-nineteenth century, bandannas manufactured in American factories were ubiquitous. They remain among the most widely recognized textile products. Among the cotton mills of Spartanburg County, the Clifton Manufacturing Company produced...
Work
...facility. She received a BA in American Studies with a concentration in Southern Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She served as an arts and education...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
...American Library Association. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her third collection, Native Guard. Natasha serves as a producer for the Southern Spaces series Poets in Place, in which...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library. Katherine Hankins, Associate Professor of Geosciences at Georgia State University, and Zephyr Frank, Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Director of Stanford University's Spatial...
Crespino's Strom Thurmond: The Last Jim Crow Demagogue and the First Sunbelt Conservative
...moderate stance would probably lead him to be run-out of the current Republican Party. Finally, Crespino addresses the controversial topic of Thurmond's African American daughter. Emory University, Expert Conversations on Strom Thurmond, 2012....