Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...industrial Louisiana in company patches on long-sleeved blue shirts: Diamond M, Gulfstream, Burlington Resources, W&T. I had seen Richard Misrach's ghostly photographs documenting images of my hometown: the salted cypress...
The Change
...a large dog food bag and sheeted up into burlap sheets that bundled over a hundred pounds when we smashed down with our feet, but gently smashing, then thrown up...
When the Border Crossed Me
Video Charles D. Thompson, Los Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time, 2014. Reflection My border odyssey began in 1985 on a farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina. On a hot summer...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...dancers and blackface performers on the strictly segregated Street. He offers a sneak peek at the burlesque performances—and far less glamorous dressing rooms of—Evangeline the Oyster Girl, Rita Alexander the...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
"A DASTARDLY CRIME: A Negro Assaults' [sic] a Lady Near Ponce de Leon Springs."
...walking along a burly negro jumped out from behind a clump of scrubby postoak bushes and assaulted her. The cries of the frightened child, however, attracted the attention of some...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...recounting her use of an article on our site in her teaching. Viewing Andrew M. Busch's Southern Spaces article "Crossing Over" on a phone. Screen capture of the new Southern...
The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...