The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
...Language Association (MLA) announced that its journals (PMLA, Profession, and the bulletins of the Association for Departments of English and Association for Departments of Foreign Languages) have adopted new "open-access-friendly"...
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...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...Library (MARBL), tells complex, personal, and painful stories that contribute to a new vernacular in the depiction and description of African American experience in the United States. In describing his...
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...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and in the Sir Elton John Photography Collection. Simone has also published two collections, On Common Ground: Photographs from the Crossroads of the New South...
Excerpt from Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
...didn't answer him. I knew I didn't have to. He looked as if he knew exactly what I was thinking. "I wonder. I wonder." We shall overcome, We shall overcome...
Mapping Souths
Essay Stories that use the South by purporting to map it are no new thing, as two nineteenth-century passages responding to the question of southern secession will illustrate: It is...
The Bulletin—July 10, 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...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...some of these images also hang in New York City, pushes a metaphoric reading of these sometimes snowbound and other times fecund places as stand-ins for the human psyche. Anyone...
Race
...when he traveled without his white wife to visit his siblings — now in New York, now in Harlem, USA — just as pale-skinned, as straight-haired, as blue-eyed as Paul,...