The Black Belt
...United States. During the "flush times," Black Belt commerce on the Alabama, Black Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers transformed towns such as Montgomery, Selma, Demopolis, and Tuscaloosa and boosted the Gulf...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...way, and though he uses non-"ideal" sources such as "surveys, social networks, pornographic searches, and dating sites" to compile "evidence" on the "number of gay men" in this country, Stephens-Davidowitz...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...line, a significant number for such a rural area. The ultra-conservative Crawfordites sought to continue most practices “as in the time of Uncle Reuben.” Since their formation in the 1870s,...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...land communes across the United States."12Greta Rensenbrink, "Parthenogenesis and Lesbian Separatism: Regenerating Women's Community through Virgin Birth in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s," Journal of the History...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...We’ve done some projects on Richmond and the state of Virginia. We’ve done some projects on the South. And we’ve done some projects on the United States. Most of these...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...United Methodist Church https://vimeo.com/809593784/9c183f767a McCabe United Methodist Church [27.745772686664253, -82.67140787567607] At McCabe, the unbaptized remnants of Salt Creek disappear into a sewer line, across from the church, at the corner...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
Review Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry, Cambridge University Press, 2011. In a few days, well before the first mosquito-killing frost reaches the South Carolina Lowcountry, I’ll head...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
Review In this impressive volume edited by Cécile Vidal a collection of historians seek to recover a "marginalized" past (16) within American history. Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World...