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...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...people have drawn on a limited number of tropes. Whether Bayard Wootten's photographic illustrations for Cabins in the Laurel,1Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel (Chapel Hill: University of North...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...and a BA from Dillard University. His first book, Please (New Issues in Poetry & Prose, 2008) won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament, was published...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...up in Florence, South Carolina (including the influence of family, religion, and racism), the poem "Vestibule" from his book The Boatloads, the role of place in his poetry, and how he...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...to fully cover the topics I just mentioned in newspaper articles. You would be hard pressed to cover them in a book, and there is little doubt that books will...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...spatial dimensions of Paulus's book are noteworthy as he considers how Haiti, the British West Indies, Texas, and Mexico influenced slaveholder and abolitionist thought, US domestic politics, and ideas about...
Our Backward Revolution
...NYU Press, 2017); Rabbi Shaul Magid is professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth. His book is The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance (Brooklyn: Ayin Press, 2023). By the...
Good-Bye to All That?
...I would have gleaned from reading a dozen books on the subject. Location of Transylvania County in North Carolina (top) and location of the Pisgah Forest Precinct in Transylvania County,...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...publications, organized chronologically. A book icon at the top of the page (also present just to the left of the Southern Spaces logo across the new site) reveals a side...