The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Thursday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that it "will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...Harmony published in 1835 by William Walker is another four-shape book still in use (for an online edition, see: The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion). It has served as the...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...in their code of conduct: they require citations. Their references and recommended resources sections aggregate online materials, provding users with a range of further reading. They also seem to be...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...testimonies from the online Bracero History Archive, at times the material challenges Mckiernan-González's ability to analyze it. These unruly narratives, like the unruly borders and travelers who crossed them, represent...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...status, a jealous protector of his own archival materials related to their shared work for the WPA, and also a spectacularly harsh critic of Hurston's contradictory persona. See, for instance,...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...1964 (Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2008). In 2011 St. Augustine installed its first public civil rights monument adjacent to the market, honoring the struggle for equality on this site...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...Policy Institute, Migration Information Source (April 2006) http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?id=392. Esta primera ola de emigrantes de Guatemala inicialmente se instaló en Los Ángeles, Houston y la parte sur de la Florida, áreas...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...provision of better educational opportunities for their children, the adoption of up-to-date styles of architecture, the installation of indoor plumbing, and the purchase of automobiles, pianos, and other amenities. In...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...and those of Mississippians" (182). She employs denominational sources, notes and reports from religious meetings, letters from northern parishioners, and instances of civil rights opposition in northern cities involving white...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...BlackPast.Org: An Online Reference Guide to African American History, accessed October 9, 2013, http://www.blackpast.org/1899-reverend-d-graham-some-facts-about-southern-lynchings. In the late nineteenth century and through the twentieth century, Rev. Graham's perception of lynching as...