And the Prize Goes to...
...skills for critical reading and reflecting. For the rest of the course, to highlight best practices for the study of the South, we considered approach, research design, genealogy of scholarship, and...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...well, says editorial board member Ed Hatfield, an ECDS graduate fellow in digital humanities and PhD candidate in history at Emory. "We want to bring academic scholarship to the public...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
Introduction Bruce West's images represent daily life suddenly and massively interrupted — a family's scattered snapshots in a vacant house; a ruined organ in the wreckage of a church; a...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...human thought and action rather than products of nature, and reproves "all attempts to institute horizons, to establish boundaries, to secure the identity of places."2Doreen Massey, Space, Place, and Gender (Minneapolis: University...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...and Alabama. They promised Rudolph Lanniger, a recent Russian immigrant, a "good job" and hired Manuel Jordomons, a Bulgarian, to do masonry work in Georgia.16Harry Korshinsky, Bennie Graubert, Rudolph Lanniger,...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...life, Pratt exemplifies the standards which this lecture series is designed to encourage. She understands that social justice does not come simply through a change in 'attitudes'; real social justice...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...of The Florida Guide, part of an "American Guide" series designed to "hold up a mirror to America." The gig provided her with the opportunity to sharpen her ethnographic game,...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...isn’t unique in this, and an exception to this rule is hard for me to imagine. I was born and raised in the part of Florida that I would say...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...deeply rooted in the city and regional economic structure, as well as historic patterns of rural-urban migration and ties to agricultural and industrial development. Wanda Rushing, Wall painting in...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...camera renders snapshot subject matter in brilliantly framed black and white images full of crisp lines and sharp contrasts. In “Edith, Ruth, and Mary, Danville, Virginia,” his wife and her...