Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...nation through assimilation or absorption (85). Cover to Karl Jacoby's The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave who Became a Mexican Millionaire (New York: W.W. Norton, 2016). In 1894, William Ellis,...
Genres of Southern Literature
...1837. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Bottom, Table of contents to the Southern Literary Messenger, December, 1835. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Images are in the public domain. We might begin to address...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...nation will be left without a safekeeping of either democracy or racial justice. About the Author An adjunct with Emory University's Institute for the Liberal Arts, Steve Suitts is the...
The Crowd He Becomes
...four of him working the city's riot, one with a bomb in his Sunday Herald, one with a gun hung out the window racing to a segregation rally, one with...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
Readings Dan Albergotti reads "The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "The Boatloads." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Accidents Happen with...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...clarity, readability, richer multimedia, and a mobile-friendly responsive layout. The new site also introduces a dynamic, open source journal publishing platform constructed with the widely used Drupal 7 content management...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...contemporaries were concerned with, as they described it, sensory overstimulation, often taking the forms of excessive religious feeling or female "hysteria." Psychiatry's concern with religious excitement formed part of a...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...indignities, lay within their own segregated communities—especially in Black churches and schools where few whites often entered. As a child living in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Reed had contact with hardly...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...and early 1970s. He starred on the Chiefs's Super Bowl–winning team in 1969, was voted to the All-Time American Football League (AFL) team and the National Football League (NFL) All-Decade...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...women held on two coastal Georgia plantations Butler owned with Gabriella, his brother John's widow. This disastrous, ill-fated sale was known as "The Weeping Time," an apt expression of the...