In Memory Hill Cemetery
...the strides to the other side mean? Here handmade bricks like colorful quilts laid into the ground cover graves of slaves. Where is Sisyphus? I think I see him in...
California Creek, North Carolina
...and say, 'Something's different. I just passed through a portal.' Glyph erected by Iktome, seen in the background, blowing a diggie-do, California Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg....
Fort Scott newspapers
Fort Scott Daily Monitor. October 7, 1883 "Acquit Him" "From the statements of those present at the killing of McDaniel on the fair ground yesterday, the negro man, May, did...
Ellipsis
...ground, burnt down by the distant white cousin who no doubt heard the ghosts humming and fussing, rattling, ratcheting, singing. Burn! she screamed. So it did. The fussing quieted. In...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...Libraries Portal to Texas History, texashistory.unt.edu/ark%3A/67531/metapth198631/m1/1/sizes. While Guzmán references Mexicans and Mexican Americans throughout the book, they play a peripheral role, irrelevant background characters in a story revolving around black-white...
And the Prize Goes to...
...for a first round with each team choosing their top two articles from a preliminary pool. We then debated the eight top articles as a group, settling on four finalists...
The Bulletin—December 20, 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...
Buckner Gap, North Carolina
...NC, 2001. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Asphalt manufacturing facility erected on site of I-26 with Buckner Gap in background, Buckner Gap, NC, 2002. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Drainage...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...the end of Reconstruction provided an opportunity for white ministers and politicians to seize the high ground on the liquor question. "Yet the success of the prohibition movement," argues Willis,...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...It coated everything. The trees around us looked like they'd been sprinkled with confectioner's sugar." "So people left," Lydde said. "Bought out by the coal company. Everyone except John. He...