"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...his "experiences of sexual freedom possible. His wealth allowed him to travel around the world, and that wealth was created in large part by black slaves and sharecroppers. His vision...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...pixels, but because once digital, any image exists as a link within a larger network.11Fred Ritchin, After Photography (New York: Norton, 2009), 70. Photography in a networked environment "is far...
The Chesapeake Bay
...Much of what we know about the Chesapeake before colonization comes from John Smith and William Strachey, who wrote detailed accounts of their travels in the region in the seventeenth...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...partnership with the College of Charleston's Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture and the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program (CLAW), LDHI's mission is to facilitate public...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
Work
...facility. She received a BA in American Studies with a concentration in Southern Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She served as an arts and education...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
Review The present system of flood control in the Mississippi Valley is a compromise resulting from a long and complicated interplay among interest groups. The current solution to the problem...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...long-form interpretive and critical pieces result from extended scholarly engagement with a topic, frequently breaking new ground in critical regional studies, African American, Native, and American Studies, women's and gender...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...make people aware of past injustices.1Karen Halttunen, “Groundwork: American Studies in Place—Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 4, 2005,” American Quarterly, 58.1 (March 2006), 1-15. This is very...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...to mention corporate, spirit of the modern American South." Soper's illustration highlights The World of Coca-Cola and Underground Atlanta, two attempts to revitalize Atlanta's downtown through tourism that were made...