Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...Photographs Division, http://www.loc.gov/resource/highsm.29287/. The flags, pictured left to right, represent states and revolutionary forces that once ruled Texas territory: the United States of America, the Confederate States of America, the Republic...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...in the text."5Nicholas Stephanopoulos, "The Supreme Court Showcased its 'Textualist' Double Standard on Voting Rights," Washington Post, July 1, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/01/supreme-court-alito-voting-rights-act/. The third consideration on Alito's list is "the degree...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...
The Crowd He Becomes
...his News. The photographer follows every one, cocked and ready to shoot, but his lens can't catch them all so he just stands, tracing their paths, he just stands, lost...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...Clockwork Regularity." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Vestibule." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Stones and Shadows." Poem text. About Dan Albergotti Born in Orangeburg, South Carolina,...
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...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...sources that historians dream of. The records from Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Williamsburg, Virginia (still operating as Eastern State Hospital) remained hidden in a storage closet in the patient library...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...male. However, since at the least the 1970s, women have worked in the mines, including underground, albeit in small numbers. I use the language of "wives and widows" because most...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...San Marcos, to Austin, to Big Bend National Park near the West Texas-Mexico border, the film has a vast canvas that contrasts with the seeming smallness of the story to...