MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...graduate, Dowda frequently presents throughout the Atlanta metro area. Dowda's work has appeared in Oxford American, Bad at Sports, ArtsATL, BURNAWAY, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Atlanta Magazine. She has exhibited...
Grave of James D. Lynch, Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, 2012
Tom Rankin, Grave of James D. Lynch, Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, 2012. James D. Lynch (1839–1872) was the first African American to serve as the Secretary of State of Mississippi. Born...
The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
...accepted for publication." MLA Executive Director Rosemary G. Feal suggested that the change might encourage open access to humanities scholarship more broadly. Also, the American Historical Association announced the establishment of...
Remembering Women’s Political Council Member Thelma Glass
Thelma McWilliams Glass died on July 24, 2012 at age ninety-six. She was the last surviving member of the Women’s Political Council (WPC), a group of African American women in Montgomery, Alabama, who...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...service economy; music and cultural workers; sex workers; the Global South; African American labor history; Latino and migrant workers; gender and labor activism; and migration throughout the South. Please submit...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...twentieth-century. They depict a Delta of fertile fields, freshly-painted plantation stores, and the seemingly contented faces of black workers.2Maude Schuyler Clay, Delta Land (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999), 87-92....
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive launch party poster, Holly Hobbs, 2014. The NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive, the first university-affiliated southern rap archive in the Deep South, is now online....
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
Confederate fort near Atlanta, Georgia, part of the city's inner ring of fortification, 1864. Photographic print by George H. Barnard. Courtesy of Library of Congress. Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...unstable" (103). View of a WCTU parade in Tallahassee, Florida. 18--. Courtesy of State Archives of Florida. Willis deftly weaves a colorful cast of characters and groups into the narrative:...
The Bulletin—January 29, 2013
...violated the Tenth Amendment and Article IV of the United States Constitution." The case involves the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed suit on behalf of the Alabama State Conference...