Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
Review Warning the governor of Kentucky that the white South stood on the brink of destruction in 1860, secession commissioner Stephen F. Hale wrote that Lincoln's election "inaugurates all the...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...appropriate, by external subject matter experts. View selected blog post examples below: Solomon, Eric. "Love and Death in Mississippi." Southern Spaces, August 16, 2018. https://southernspaces.org/2018/love-and-death-mississippi/. Suitts, Steve. "States' Rights Resurgent:...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...The Most Dangerous Woman in America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001), and most recently, Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)....
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
Introduction Julio Capó, Jr. during a curator's guided tour of the exhibition Queer Miami: A History of LGBTQ Communities, Miami, Florida, June 6, 2019. Photograph by Michele Reese. Courtesy of...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...throughout the 1940s and 1950s. On June 11, 1963, Foster Auditorium entered the national spotlight when Alabama governor George Wallace refused to allow two African American students, Vivian Malone and...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...Eatonville, Florida, June 1935. Photograph by Alan Lomax. Courtesy of Library of Congress. Some four years after the publication of what would become two of her most famous essays, folklorist...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...a limited number of tunes. Singing schools emerged to teach lay-persons the basics of reading and performing music. These schools operated independently of any congregation or denomination and were run...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
Panel from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Photograph courtesy of the author, June 23, 2016. Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...His Head": Slavery and the Texas-Mexico Border, 1810–1860," Journal of Social History 37, No. 3 (Spring 2004): 709–723. While employment by white colonists—often former slave owners—brought an unspecified number of...
The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...