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...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has launched a campaign to bring back Virginia's anti-sodomy law.1 The first proposed law on sodomy in the newly formed United States of America was introduced...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946–1988, and LeeAnn Lands, Associate Professor of American Studies and History, Kennesaw State University and author of The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in...
Sweep
...lived here all year I'd buy American, I'd drive a truck, and I'm thinking of football and my father's and Mike's words staking out an absence I know I won't...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
The New Orleans-based Amistad Research Center is the nation's oldest, largest, and most comprehensive independent archive specializing in African American history and culture. For the first time in its history,...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...and the fun. In the midst of Reagan-era nostalgia for some fantastical American past, they reminded those of us who listened and danced like crazy that we could still make...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
...Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993), Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life (University Press of Mississippi, 1995), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible...
Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Alabama, 2003
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In the wake of the Supreme Court's recent ruling on the Affordable Care Act, we found this helpful map from the American Constitution Society for...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...late-nineteenth century, bandannas manufactured in American factories were ubiquitous. They remain among the most widely recognized textile products. Among the cotton mills of Spartanburg County, the Clifton Manufacturing Company produced...