A Conversation with Digital Historians
...building on both the literature and the apparatus for scholarship that has come before them. We all use documentary collections that were published around the turn of the last century....
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...newly incorporated town of Oxford, Georgia, to radiate along broad geometrical avenues from the planned campus, itself organized around a stately oval drive. Devoted in large measure to preparing young...
Little Ivy, North Carolina
Little Ivy Church, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Blueprints for construction of new Little Ivy Church, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Cemetery...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Narratives: The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007). It is salutary to occasionally violate these framing devices—their utility notwithstanding—in the interest...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
County White Alone, #, 2000 White Alone, %, 2000 Black Alone, #, 2000 Black Alone, %, 2000 Chattahoochee 8,643 58.08 4,453 29.92 Clay 1,290 38.43 2,030 60.47 Decatur 16,126...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
John Vachon, Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, LC-USW36-839. Southern Spaces recently added six new images to the...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...Sprinkle Creek with NCDOT geologist, Rick Lockamy, to conduct core rock sampling, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 2994. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT geologist, Rick Lochamy, studying maps in preparation for...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...by the federal government. These are important not only to provide background and context, but also because the often-contested terrain of scientific knowledge and expertise is so central to understanding...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...by having the climactic scene of "Kabnis" take place underground is figured aboveground in 12 Years a Slave. At one point during his captivity on the Epps plantation (time in...