Brushes with War
...2: Our Special, 1864. Color lithograph by Winslow Homer. From Louis Prang & Company. SAAM guests were thrust into the Civil War exhibit space almost as abruptly as soldiers were...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...sign highlights Spanish colonial accounts, not African American history. Slaves were sold in and around the public market. While most slave sales in pre-Civil War St. Augustine took place at...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...must be "a little disordered in his mind" but reports that there "had been a case or two of religious melancholy among his relations on his mother's side." Caruthers also...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...also typical of southern quilts of the era in that the blocks are set solidly within a grid of wide fabric strips, called "sashing." She quilted around the edges of...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...buying and deporting enslaved Africans. This initial mix proved fatal, both literally and figuratively. Within a generation, the West African rice growing skills documented by such scholars as Daniel Littlefield,...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...is similar to Steve Earle’s “Someday,” where he sings, “Now my brother went to college cause he played football I'm still hangin' round cause I'm a little bit small.” Hood...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
..."it was partly because, as a result of moving around, I was always struggling to learn the local rules and grammar of subordination and how to craft a normal kid's...
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...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...the Mississippi and ever deeper into the slaveholding South. In literary terms at least, the Ohio serves as the preeminent escape route for fugitive slaves, and as such, represents the...