The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
This week's Bulletin focuses on recent announcements in publishing and digital scholarship. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding these issues. The Modern...
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...
Gravestones in Chester County, South Carolina and Wythe County, Virginia
William Simpson gravestone (1777), Stone Cemetery, Chester County, South Carolina, March 1996. Rear faces of gravestones carved by Laurence Crone, McGavock Family Cemetery, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Virginia, August 1978....
Street scene, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1935
Ben Shahn, Street scene, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1935. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives Collection, LC-USF33-006097-M3....
Bill's fish market, Sunset Beach, North Carolina, 2012
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Crespino's Strom Thurmond: The Last Jim Crow Demagogue and the First Sunbelt Conservative
In this short interview, historian Joseph Crespino discusses his new book, Strom Thurmond's America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of South Carolina politician Strom Thurmond. Crespino explains how...
St. Thomas Church Supper near Bardstown, Kentucky, August 7, 1940
...picnic supper at St. Thomas Catholic Church, taken by Marion Post Wolcott on August 7, 1940 near Bardstown, Kentucky. We first came across the second photograph in the series, where...
ROA's graffiti at 209 Mitchell Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 2012
ROA is a graffiti artist from Ghent, Belgium. He made this graffiti for a conference organized by Living Walls Atlanta in 2011. It is located on the east side of...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta's LGBT Community
Atlanta Intersections features Atlantans in conversation with Randy Gue, curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). In collaboration with Southern Spaces, MARBL...
Sweet Willie's, Quitman, Georgia, 2005