Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...the way "southern literature" would be both marketed and received in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This quietly ambitious study reminds us that we cannot understand the phenomenon of nineteenth-century...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...the persistent spaces usually known in New Orleans as “back of town,” the haunts of runaway slaves, prostitutes, and smugglers. Plan de Nouvelle Orleans, 1722. From Library of Congress Map...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...expressive art traditions. I am excited about the ways in which the archive may, in some small way, help to address these issues. There is also a wealth of potential...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...Wiese recounts how discrimination curbed the African American housing boom, leaving deep scars on the urban fabric Part 6: Dr. Wiese discusses how highway construction and urban renewal in the late...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
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From A Field Guide to Etowah County
...to set things right. Goldenrod blazes the highway's shoulders, all the way to Birmingham or Chattanooga, and starlings gather like glass, like grackles in the trees, such sociability an advance...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...in the sixteenth century and, like Tyll, takes you to places and times that seem very real although very far away. And, after some weeks, I have worked my way...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...way for Black families to live on the west side of Center Street—but not without brutal backlash. The area was bombed so frequently it became known as "Dynamite Hill," in...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
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