Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...put up on the screen. Rosemary McCombs Maxey looks at family photographs, Dustin, Oklahoma, 2015. Screenshot from Hearing the Call courtesy of Southern Spaces. As I, along with Rosemary herself...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...residents "placed tremendous strains on [school] facilities" (29, 20). This required building new schools at an astonishing rate. Even with 44 elementary schools, fifteen middle schools, and twelve high schools...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...four hundred to two; he then corrected the number to one since he was no longer farming. In addition to teaching agriculture in high school, Long farmed, and he told...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...an in-depth interview with Trethewey, and eight critical essays. Southern Spaces is happy to have supported the Southern Quarterly by granting permission to include a number of images of Trethewey...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...through the thick fog of history, ocean, and industrial/scientific rhetoric, raising as many questions as answers. Sweet, fat, briny, buttery, and luscious, the oysters were a phenomenon of excess and...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...in graduate school at the University of Illinois, attended a number of singings in his home state in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Encountering Wesleyan’s strong ethnomusicology program, Bruce...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
Introduction Bruce West's images represent daily life suddenly and massively interrupted — a family's scattered snapshots in a vacant house; a ruined organ in the wreckage of a church; a...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...at Harvard Graduate School of Education, marked the anniversary by questioning the notion that public schools in the United States are really desegregated, asking "Is this the desegregation Meredith fought...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...faculty in the office of faculty governance. Her publications include Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006). Whisnant is the scholarly advisor...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...Longstreet's mind.5Longstreet, Georgia Scenes Completed, 148. For similar readings of this story see: Scott Romine, "Negotiating Community in Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes," Style 30 (Spring 1996): 1-27. Meriwether, "Augustus...