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...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...in our basements. See, we can come in here and entertain in this living room, but that recreation room downstairs is where we came and had our little dances, where...
Roadside Architecture
...in north Mississippi and regionally around the rest of the "mid-South." I'd spent major portions of my childhood summers in North Carolina and lived in Texas as an adult, but...
Call for Papers from The Southern Quarterly: Special Issue on "The Mississippi River and Southern Icons"
...as literature, folklore, anthropology, and history. "The South" is defined as the region south of the Mason Dixon Line, including the Caribbean and Latin America. Regular features include reviews of...
Excerpt from Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
...gang. I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes. "Moody…" it was little Gene again interrupting his singing. "Moody, we're gonna git things straight in Washington, huh?" I...
Lyrics to Pretty Saro
...mine I viewéd all around me, I found I was quite alone And me a poor stranger and a long way from home My true love she won't have me...
Mapping Souths
...Die Presse 306, (November 7, 1861). The first passage, from William Henry Trescot's 1850 "The Position and Course of the South" (literally) naturalizes sectional differences in order to justify splitting...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...2008 election that has received relatively little comment is the fact that Barack Obama is the first president elected since John F. Kennedy who is not from the Sunbelt, the...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...
Transcript: Interview with Precious Bryant
...that on and on, and I started hittin’ a few tunes myself. And uh, dragging around that old big guitar, which was the family guitar. And that’s how I got,...