"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...insists, it was not the River Jordan (69). Along with a multifaceted explanation of these complications, Salafia also offers a provocative meditation on the meanings of southern spaces, both physical...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...With the various Latinx migrations to/through southern spaces since the late nineteenth at top of mind, the discussion highlighted the nuances of writing Latinx history from a southern vantage point....
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/highlighting-charlestons-african-american-history-through-lowcountry-digital-history-initiative. Bransford, Steve, Michael Page, and Anthony Martin. "St. Catherines Island Flyover." Southern Spaces, July 14, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/st-catherines-island-flyover. Hagood, Taylor. "The Digital Yoknapawtawpha Project." Southern Spaces, January 22, 2014. https://southernspaces.org/2014/digital-yoknapatawpha-project....
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...129–130; A. Cash Koeniger, “Climate and Southern Distinctiveness” Journal of Southern History 54, no. 1 (February 1988): 21–44; and Humphreys, Yellow Fever and the South, 7. Not only would German...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
Coinciding with the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Southern Spaces and the University of Texas Press announce a collaborative publishing project. "No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep...
Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
...1,949 37.11 3,232 61.54 Talbot 2,391 36.80 4,002 61.59 Terrell 4,163 37.95 6,658 60.69 Troup 38,676 65.80 18,734 31.87 Published: 16 March 2004 © 2004 Steve Bransford and Southern Spaces...
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...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...north. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, the numbers of enslaved in the District of Columbia declined. By 1850 (when Nannie was two years old) 3,185 of the 13,746...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...adopted by singing masters as other shape note songbooks appeared in the mid-Atlantic, midwestern, and southern states in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Singing schools and shape note...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...vision of an orderly, fortified town. In contrast to other southern settlements, Augusta lacked town walls because the traders required an open town with easy and rapid communication among buyers...