A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
Review At the 2013 New York Film Critics Circle Awards (NYFCC), English filmmaker Steve McQueen was named Best Director for his stunning adaptation of Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir Twelve Years...
Call for Papers from The Southern Quarterly: Special Issue on "The Mississippi River and Southern Icons"
The Southern Quarterly has issued a call for papers for an upcoming special issue on the significance of the Mississippi River in works of creative expression. From The Southern Quarterly:...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
Studying White Southern Gospel White southern gospel music seems like a strange source of pleasure for a "gay, secular humanist academic," as Douglas Harrison identifies himself (17). Guided by theological...
The Bulletin—January 29, 2013
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Seneca Quarry
1823 Seneca Quarry workmen payroll. 1823 payroll. National Archives & Records Administration, Records Group 42: Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, 1790–1992....
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
USS Carter Hall, off the coast of North Carolina, 2005
WWI memorial footbridge over Big Elkin Creek, Elkin, North Carolina, 2004
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Trethewey discusses “Signs, Oakvale, Missisippi, 1941” and “Flounder” as well as landscapes in Gulfport and New Orleans Part 3: Trethewey discusses “Monument,” “Elegy for the Native...