Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...every year in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, and Florida—states where this musical form has existed since the mid-nineteenth century—new singings have been held in other areas of the United States...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...in Texas in 2011 and 2012 because the state failed to prove that these laws did not "have the purpose or effect of denying or abridging the right to vote...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...a Small Texas Town: Photographs Memories, and History from McDade (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000). He has an MFA in photography and a PhD in American Studies, both from the...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...of the critical, interdisciplinary, and multimedia scholarship we seek: Busch, Andrew M. "Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas." Southern Spaces, August 19, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/crossing-over-sustainability-new-urbanism-and-gentrification-austin-texas. Conis, Elena....
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...perform at a Gaither Homecoming Friends concert, Fort Worth, Texas, April 4, 2009. The other main theme Harrison examines is how southern gospel, from its cultural origins during Reconstruction to...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
...strongly suggesting that multiple rides based on his invention were built by others. A possible example may be a ride at Oakland Beach, Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania. An 1885 advertisement for...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...the war. A harvest of death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863. Photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Smith surveys the carnage at the...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...their ancestors had participated in the Confederacy. Dump Trump Rally, Freedom Plaza, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, July 9, 2015. Photograph by Flickr user Elvert Barnes. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
Review The Ohio River figures prominently in what are arguably the three most significant novels of American slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Toni Morrison's Beloved both feature...