The Carolina Piedmont

Sarah Toton, Carolina Piedmont map, 2006. Along the southern shoulder of the Piedmont Plateau that stretches from New York State into Alabama, the Carolina Piedmont runs some 250 miles from Danville, Virginia, to the far edge of South Carolina. Seventy-five to a hundred miles wide, this region of smooth-rolling hills and rocky-bottomed rivers expands from the Appalachians toward the geological fall line cities of Raleigh, Fayetteville, Columbia, and Augusta. Beyond, lies the Atlantic Coastal Plain

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

Allen Tullos considers the shifting political meanings of Alabama's Edmund Pettus Bridge

Musical Styles of the Southern Appalachians

Varieties of Southern Appalachian music are explored with sound samples, short commentaries, virtual visits, and weblinks

The Black Belt

This essay considers the historical-geographical Black Belt, beginning as a rich, dark-soil, cotton-growing region of Alabama occupied by slaveholders in the 1820s and 30s, and becoming, over time, a more generalized designation for a region or place with a majority black population. By the late twentieth century, the Alabama Black Belt as a region of insurgent African American aspirations made a strong claim to take over the meaning of the term from its older and other senses

Music of the Louisiana Gulf Coast

US Geological Survey, Louisiana Gulf Coast Region, 2002. Where the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico meet and mingle, South Louisiana is one of the richest regions of traditional and contemporary music. Its extraordinary cultural diversity finds expression through cajun fiddlers and accordion players. Black creole bands performing the dance music called zydeco, New Orleans jazz in its many permutations, brass band second-liners, piano professors, gospel singers, church choirs, rhythm and blues shouters, country-western honky tonkers, swamp rockers, Dirty South rappers—to list major examples. This page offers a passageway into this song-saturated region

The Klan Tableau

Video footage documenting artist William Christenberry's Klan Tableau in Washington, DC, 2007. This video is affiliated with the presentation "Place, Time, and Memory.

Dismembering and Remembering: Embodied Experience and Oral History (Comments accompanying the showing of the film documentary «Being A Joines»)

Tullos Allen. Dismembering and Remembering: Embodied Experience and Oral History (Comments accompanying the showing of the film documentary «Being A Joines»). In: Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, N°44, avril 1990. Le corps dans la culture et la littérature américaine. pp. 77-85

The Center That Holds: Developing and Sustaining Digital Publishing Models at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship

Dr. Allen E. Tullos, Emory University (moderator) Panel abstract: The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) supports digital publishing that engages multiple constituencies in and beyond university communities. Southern Spaces, a Drupal-based, open access, peer-reviewed journal; the Atlanta Studies Network, a Wordpress-powered, collaborative site that features scholarship and resources about the city; and Readux, a new platform for reading, annotating, and publishing digital critical editions, demonstrate the Center’s range of publishing models and platforms. Investing in these projects, ECDS redefines sustainability by prioritizing their replicability, utilizing open source tools, and foregrounding graduate student training. ECDS will share strategies for contributing to a sustainable scholarly community through digital publishing. Speaker abstracts: Sarah V. Melton, The Atlanta Studies Network: Building a Community through Digital Publishing The Atlanta Studies Network is an open access, digital publication that features work from scholars, writers, artists, and activists about the Atlanta metro area. A collaborative initiative between institutions throughout the region, the Atlanta Studies Network brings together communities in and beyond the academy through publications, resources, and meetups. The site not only publishes original articles and scholarship, but also showcases other projects and datasets for those wishing to learn more about Atlanta. The publication also sponsors the successful Atlanta Studies Symposium, a conference now in its third year. As a publication and resource, the site fosters partnerships across disciplines, institutions, and organizations. Supported by ECDS, the Atlanta Studies Network runs on Wordpress and makes use of open source geospatial and visualization tools. The initiative thus foregrounds sustainability through its commitment to open software models and multi-institutional collaborations. Emory University, Georgia State University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology, for example, have each hosted the Atlanta Studies Symposium, allowing these universities to share costs. The Atlanta Studies Network draws on the strengths of its partners to create and highlight scholarship beyond the traditional scholarly article. Jesse P. Karlsberg, Readux: Sustaining the Publication of Digital Critical EditionsReadux is a new platform for publishing digital critical editions that enables unprecedented search and annotation functionality. In Readux, readers browse digitized page images, search TEI-encoded and page region–tagged text, and view multimedia annotations linked to text or page areas. Released as open source software and developed by ECDS and Emory’s library software development team, Readux allows users to browse and read digitized texts in Emory’s digital repository; create annotations incorporating text as well as images, audio, video, and hyperlinks; and export digital editions in web and eBook formats. ECDS views the continued development of open source platforms like Readux as an important component of its commitment to sustainable library-led digital publishing. Readux draws on the unique advantages of its digital format to avoid the difficult choice between facsimile and annotation that print often imposes on critical editions. The resulting digital editions more fully represent the digitized texts and their scholarly interpretation. ECDS is also investing in the production of a series of editions as a proof of concept for the Readux tool featuring an exemplary Emory collection—nineteenth- and twentieth-century American tunebooks and music manuscripts. This work increases the accessibility of the library’s holdings by enhancing them through interpretation and open access digital publication. The series’ development of an editorial board and review process furthers Emory’s capacity for scholarly expression, bringing traditional components of scholarly publishing to an institution without a university press