An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the U.S. South and their global connections

Articles

Articles are critical multimedia essays exploring the real and imagined places of the U.S. South, or making connections and comparisons between the U.S. South, southern regions, and other areas of the world.

A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate

Edward A. Hatfield, Emory University
29 April 2013
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Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History

Ellen Griffith Spears, University of Alabama
18 February 2013
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The Place of Appalachia

Barbara Ellen Smith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University  

Stephen L. Fisher, Emory and Henry College
31 January 2013
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Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906

Aaron Reynolds, University of Texas, Austin
21 January 2013
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Vernacular and Universal Prejudice

Gyanendra Pandey, Emory University
8 January 2013
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Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones

Mark Auslander, Central Washington University
12 December 2012
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Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

Daniel W. Patterson, University of North Carolina
30 October 2012
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St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History

Holly Markovitz Goldstein, Savannah College of Art and Design
28 September 2012
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Dirty Little Story

Rheta Grimsley Johnson, Columnist
6 September 2012
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Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838

Sarah H. Hill, Independent Scholar
23 August 2012
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No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy

Lynn Weber, University of South Carolina
17 August 2012
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Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else

Jesse Freeman, Filmmaker
26 June 2012
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"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

Sarah Quigley, Manuscript Archivist at Emory University
12 June 2012
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Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project

John Lane, Wofford College
28 February 2012
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"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High

Ruthie Yow, Yale University
20 February 2012
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A Conversation with Digital Historians

Robert K. Nelson, University of Richmond
Andrew J. Torget, University of North Texas
Scott Nesbit, University of Richmond
31 January 2012
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Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South

Mary E. Frederickson, Miami University
16 December 2011
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Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”

Jesse P. Karlsberg, Emory University
30 November 2011
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Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond

Nick Spitzer, Tulane University
28 November 2011
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A Mess of Poke

Allison O. Adams, Decatur, Georgia
17 October 2011
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The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia

Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia
26 September 2011
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Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson

Charles D. Thompson, Jr., Duke University
29 August 2011
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James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha

Janisse Ray, Chatham University
Nancy Marshall, Photographer
11 August 2011
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A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition

William G. Thomas III, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
26 July 2011
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Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia

Scott Nesbit, University of Richmond
19 July 2011
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Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron

Claudrena N. Harold, University of Virginia
12 July 2011
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Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee

Fran Ansley, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Anne Lewis, University of Texas, Austin
19 May 2011
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The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

Edward L. Ayers, University of Richmond
17 May 2011
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Whiskey and Geography

Charles D. Thompson, Jr., Duke University
9 May 2011
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The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the U.S. South

Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci, Brown University
18 March 2011
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Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the U.S. South

William Brown, Emory University

Mary Odem, Emory University
16 February 2011
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"Holding on to Those Who Can't be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia

Mark Auslander, Brandeis University
8 November 2010
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New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South

Jamie Winders, Syracuse University

Barbara Ellen Smith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
4 November 2010
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"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions

Brian C. Campbell, University of Central Arkansas
20 September 2010
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Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing

Laurie Kay Sommers, Independent Scholar
17 August 2010
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The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation

Steve Suitts, Southern Education Foundation
29 June 2010
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Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques

Jamillah Karim, Spelman College
31 May 2010
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Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels' A Southerner Discovers the South

Jennifer Ritterhouse, George Mason University
20 May 2010
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The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes

Mark Auslander, Brandeis University
13 May 2010
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The Scarred Stone: The Strom Thurmond Monument

Joseph Crespino, Emory University
29 April 2010
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Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story

Patricia A. Suchy and James V. Catano, Louisiana State University
27 April 2010
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Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement

Allison O. Adams, Decatur, Georgia
30 March 2010
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"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri

Jarod Roll, University of Sussex
16 March 2010
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Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces

Artist Collective John Q (Wesley Chenault, Andy Ditzler, and Joey Orr), Atlanta, Georgia
26 February 2010
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Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale

Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson, Emory University
18 February 2010
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Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869

Peter West, Adelphi University
9 February 2010
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Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta

Mikko Saikku, University of Helsinki
28 January 2010
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A City Divided

LeeAnn Lands, Kennesaw State University
29 December 2009
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Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

Cameron B. LeBlanc, Emory University
22 December 2009
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Single Centers of Creation?

Nancy Lowe, Independent Artist
30 November 2009
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Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space

Saralyn Chesnut, Amanda C. Gable, and Elizabeth Anderson, Atlanta, Georgia
3 November 2009
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Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

Shirley Stewart Burns, Ph.D, Independent Appalachian Scholar
30 September 2009
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Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, & Biotechnology

Wanda Rushing, University of Memphis
28 August 2009
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The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript

Dorothy Moye, Decatur, Georgia
26 August 2009
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Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

Lawrence N. Powell, Tulane University
29 July 2009
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Memorializing the Freedom Riders

Ellen Spears, Emory University
29 June 2009
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Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause

Clive Webb, University of Sussex
22 June 2009
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An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"

Margaret D. Bauer, East Carolina University
28 May 2009
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New Shades o'Death Creek

Denise Giardina, West Virginia State University
21 May 2009
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Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville

John Egerton, Nashville, Tennessee
4 May 2009
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They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

Amy Louise Wood, Illinois State University
27 April 2009
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Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the U.S. South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
26 March 2009
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A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl

Margaret T. McGehee, Presbyterian College
9 March 2009
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The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces

James Oliver Horton, George Washington University
16 February 2009
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New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools

Beth Tarasawa, Emory University
19 January 2009
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The U.S. South and the 2008 Election

Joseph Crespino, Emory University
11 December 2008
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The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee

Bradley Hanson, Brown University
20 November 2008
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Gold Records in Deep Space

Steve Bransford, Emory University
3 November 2008
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Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

Christine McCulloch, Emory University
23 October 2008
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John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943

John Howard, King's College London
2 October 2008
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"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of U.S. Slave Society

Anthony E. Kaye, Pennsylvania State University
3 September 2008
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John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival

Scott L. Matthews, Hollins University
6 August 2008
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Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

Allen Tullos, Emory University
28 July 2008
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Mapping Souths

Scott Romine, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
25 June 2008
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Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the U.S. South, 1997–2007

Matt Miller, Emory University
10 June 2008
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Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies

Michael Moon, Emory University
16 May 2008
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Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools

Steve Suitts, Southern Education Foundation
16 April 2008
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Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920

Sarah Toton, Emory University
15 January 2008
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Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers

Terry Easton, Emory University
21 December 2007
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Deep Ellum Blues

Kevin Pask, Concordia University
30 October 2007
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"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence

Brent M. S. Campney, Emory University
6 September 2007
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Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"

Ed Piacentino, High Point University
28 August 2007
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On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession

Eric Gary Anderson, George Mason University
9 August 2007
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The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape

William G. Thomas III, University of Nebraska
Brooks Miles Barnes, Eastern Shore Public Library; Tom Szuba, University of Virginia
31 July 2007
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Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography

James B. Wallace, Emory University
4 June 2007
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Inside Poor Monkey's

Luther Brown, Delta State University
22 June 2006
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An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts

Laurel Horton, Seneca, South Carolina
19 May 2006
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Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered

S Zebulon Baker (compiler), Emory University

Illustrations by Kerry Soper, Brigham Young University
21 March 2006
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Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi

William G. Thomas III, University of Virginia
3 November 2004
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The Carolina Piedmont

Allen Tullos, Emory University
27 July 2004
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The Shenandoah Valley

William G. Thomas III, University of Virginia
20 April 2004
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The Black Belt

Allen Tullos, Emory University
19 April 2004
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The Chesapeake Bay

William G. Thomas III, University of Virginia
16 April 2004
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The Border South

William G. Thomas III, University of Virginia
16 April 2004
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Musical Styles of the Southern Appalachians

Allen Tullos (compiler), Emory University
15 April 2004
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Mississippi Delta

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
4 April 2004
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Music in Memphis

Allen Tullos (compiler), Emory University
31 March 2004
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African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City

Carole Merritt, The Herndon Home
20 March 2004
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African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America

Carole Merritt, The Herndon Home
17 March 2004
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African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman

Carole Merritt, The Herndon Home
16 March 2004
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Overview: Religion and the U.S. South

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
16 March 2004
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Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

Steve Bransford, Emory University
16 March 2004
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Cajun South Louisiana

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
12 March 2004
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Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres

Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University
4 March 2004
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Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University
1 March 2004
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Local Color

Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University
29 February 2004
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Music of the Louisiana Gulf Coast

Allen Tullos (compiler), Emory University
26 February 2004
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Love and Death at Second-Line

Nick Spitzer, University of New Orleans
20 February 2004
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Genres of Southern Literature

Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University
16 February 2004
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