The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...country remains dominant in a number of southern states. Remarking on the similar results of the 2008 presidential election in his Southern Spaces piece "The US South and the 2008...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana images
...2004, there were a number of construction projects underway in downtown Baton Rouge. Tourist on Docked Riverboat Modern-day riverboats, decorated like their nineteenth-century predecessors, transport tourists up and down...
The Border South
...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...to national and transnational trade: "It has always been exceedingly difficult to ascertain the exact number of slaves in the Southern states; the usual estimate is about four and a...
Just as Sure
...Couldn't deny they shared faces. We buried Daddy in '53. They finished the dam, backed up the Oconee that year to make power. They made a lake, changed the town....
Putting up Beans
...dirt wasps. Slightly rubbery, slightly sweet enough bushel baskets to put away winter hunger for about another year. I remember the first time I canned in the barns, tobacco barn...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...and sent you back to pick and sing for nearly forty years in church and at parties and to get by as a hired hand, practicing fatherhood. Greatest of the...
Runaway
...years earlier I learned this skill — How to shake the night's hand in confidence, How to trust that no star will talk? I deserved this, My anniversary — I...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...to, and why you came here to start with, and to have those things taken away. For years we'd go to sheep shows in Louisville, KY, and we would drive...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...the bandannas with wide sashing strips and borders of solid orange. Mary had used the same orange in her Tulip quilt thirty years earlier. The combination of bright red and...