The Bulletin—April 24, 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 Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...encounter with The Lightning Field in New Mexico, an installation piece by renowned sculptor, Walter De Maria. Dowda describes the piece as a quarter-mile long desert field installed with nearly...
The Bulletin—August 9, 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...
The Bulletin—October 18, 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...
The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
Today’s post is the first in an ongoing series compiling links related to news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively...
Submission Process
...Does the piece traffic in new and progressive ideas about US Souths or southern distinctiveness and nostalgia? Permissions: Would using the content or suggested media require extensive, expensive, or impossible permissions?...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...a hairsbreadth of starvation. Alvin Jewett Johnson, "Johnson's Map of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware and Maryland, 1863," from Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical...
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...