Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...1970s, at once geographical, ideological, and social. This group was in many ways remarkably similar to lesbian-feminist communities in other parts of the United States; its emergence can be traced...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...virus spread throughout Mexico, and subsequently the world. The United States media labeled the strain the "swine flu" or "Mexican flu," connections solidified with the coverage of the first recorded...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...Rare Book Library, March 29, 2016. Photograph by Kelly Gannon. Courtesy of Kelly Gannon. Today, as a doctoral student in Emory University's Institute for the Liberal Arts, I research contemporary...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...quantum later in the nineteenth century, to federal law and competing indigenous notions of what it means to be Cherokee today. While such different formations enabled Cherokees to maintain a...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...in America and the world. Masahiro Sumori, Congo Square today, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2006. Sculptural tributes to New Orleans musical history greats are scattered throughout the park, most of them...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
Southern Spaces is proud to launch a fresh design for our journal today, stage one in a two-stage rollout of our newly redeveloped publishing platform. The new design emphasizes visual...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...address, Wallace had promised "segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever," and he assured voters that he would make every possible attempt to block federally...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896, new ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1920), 340. See also Population of the United States in 1860, Compiled...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...the making of the United States's second largest state. From the role of slavery to the rise of conservative politicians such as George W. Bush, Rick Perry, and Ted Cruz,...