Brushes with War
...S. Jameson, the artist's widowed mother. At the Society's next annual meeting, "the young, brave, and enthusiastic John S. Jameson" was eulogized by president John F. Kensett, a prominent landscape...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...importance of race in persistent southern distinctiveness Part 6: Egerton calls for further research, highlighting a list of potential contributions about neglected subjects About John Egerton John Egerton was born in...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
John Vachon, Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, LC-USW36-839. Southern Spaces recently added six new images to the...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...I knew they had it."60Beverly Lindsay-Johnson, interview with author, January 8, 2013. This story and the black and white reenactments in Lindsay-Johnson's film speak both to the creativity that historians...
"Aint that Something?"
...and subjects. Some of Appalachian literature's most acclaimed and best-known authors include James Still, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Wendell Berry, Jim Wayne Miller, Denise Giardina, and Lee Smith. Younger Appalachian authors...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...changes. Drawn by abundant natural resources and state governments promising low-wage and non-unionized labor and cheap (or free) land, military installations sprang up and expanded, and a host of industrial...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...on that question, I want to close with a poem of mine, dedicated to the memory of my friend John Finlay (1941-1991): Opening the Book on Tomorrow John Finlay died...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...the Future of Urban Cultures (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), and recently published "'What’s Good for Boyle Heights is Good for the Jews': Creating Multiracialism on the Eastside During the...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...the colonization of the Americas, as we see in this 1703 frontispiece.6Tatiana Reinoza, Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023): 18....
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...US Diplomacy toward Saint Domingue, 1798–1801," Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9, no. 1 (Winter 2011): 114–41; and Ronald Angelo Johnson, Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint...