Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...longer lifespan and are less affected by the decrees of highway officials. Those located on back roads or on private property appear to have even greater longevity and can change...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...Shelby County, Alabama, a county commissioner arrived, hailing the librarian and me. "Happy Martin Luther Coon Day!" he shouted. Earlier this year, on the last day of February, Shelby County's...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...scholarly journal publishing but increasingly popular among long-form web magazines. Our home page highlights a rotating array of new and featured publications, followed by a scrolling list of the journal's...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...slaveholders abandoned the "necessary evil" defense of slavery in favor of the "positive good" argument and sought to punish abolitionists. Planters began to fear that they could no longer count...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...Years a Slave (Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1853). From Archive.org. 12 Years a Slave was an important American story long before Steve McQueen put it on screen, and it was...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...uncovering the lawsuits they had brought against the Jesuits and other prominent Maryland slaveholders long before the 1838 sale. Some won their freedom. Others didn't—but each of their cases challenged...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...music was long practiced, questions of “tradition” and “authenticity” have become pervasive. Many new singers locate authenticity with prominent singing families from Alabama, Georgia, and Texas who have long histories...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...assemblage of natural communities that share a large majority of their species and ecological dynamics, share similar environmental conditions, and interact ecologically in ways that are critical for their long-term...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...than others. Sociologist Lindsey Freeman introduces one population who embraced the bomb and today longs for its glory days: soldiers, scientists, engineers, and workers of the Oak Ridge National Atomic...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...change was long overdue: the uprooting of segregation (though not the racial face of poverty), with its "colored only" drinking fountains, restrooms, streetcar seating, and other vestiges of separate-but-hardly-equal affronts...