Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...menu offering ways to browse the journal's content organized by publication type, author, series/collection, or year of publication. Individual publication pages foreground accessibility through larger, more legible text and heading, improved...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...our institutions to avoid creating a two- or three-tiered higher-education system where some people cannot access any kind of education, others can only afford to enroll in online education, and...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...with the real trauma the Church had caused and offered no meaningful pathway forward. His apology and the request for forgiveness fell flat. Descendants turned their heads away. In this...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Sacred Harp Singers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011) for extended treatments of these ways of thinking about the spread of Sacred Harp singing beyond the southeastern United States. Alice...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...form of artworks in and of themselves. Major tribute programs were produced and presented in Broadway Theater venues—the Shubert, and Majestic Theaters, and Carnegie Hall—featuring Broadway-quality artists who celebrated the...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...racing along the highway crept into my left ear. Untitled (James River), from the series Stony the Road, 2023, Gelatin Silver Print by Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). Virginia Museum...
The Liminal Site
...on his way down—the Piedmont Virginia of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, all of whom would have been alive as he passed through—looks surprisingly like Birmingham's.4William Faulkner, Absalom,...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Pettus bridge and march towards Montgomery along US Highway 80 ("Jefferson Davis Highway"). As marchers retreated across the bridge onto Broad Street, four carloads of white possemen pursued the protesters and...