African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the shining example of Henry Grady's New South ideology — seeking industrialization through northern capital and promising racial justice through segregation. But in spite of the city's aggressive promotion of...
Mississippi Delta
...in the eastern floodplain of the lower Mississippi River. It is sixty miles at its widest point from the Yazoo to the Mississippi, in what poet William Alexander Percy called "a badly...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...and a coalition of scientists and middle-class suburbanites, who pushed for the preservation of free-flowing streams. It also helps Manganiello demonstrate how recurring cycles of flooding and drought, abundance and...
The Carolina Piedmont
...a countryside filled with freed blacks, and appeals to "fight like men for our firesides." Bennett Place, Durham County, N.C. Because Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to General William...
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival." Hanson, Bradley. "The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee." Southern Spaces, November 20, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/tennessee-jamboree-local-radio-barn-dance-and-cultural-life-appalachian-east-tennessee. Matthews,...
Expansion of Post Offices along the Eastern Shore from 1793-1917
Published: 31 July 2007 © 2007 William G. III Thomas and Southern Spaces...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...transformed it into a temple and, a year later, into a WDM-affiliated [W.D. Mohammed] mosque, replacing pews with green carpet. Located southeast of downtown Atlanta, the new mosque stood half...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...1836. Shortly after their arrival they began establishing their churches. Thlewarle Indian Baptist Church was established approximately three miles north-east of present Dustin, Oklahoma — formerly Spokogee Township, Indian Territory.1The...
Marsh love seat, Bull's Landing, Eastern shore of Virginia, 2005
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...of the twentieth century, singings spread to the Northeast, Midwest, and West Coast. Later, through these same channels, The Sacred Harp expanded to Canada, Europe, Australia, and East Asia.3Jesse P....