Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...a number of improvements have taken place in the city. "Along the sweep of the nine-mile circle several attractive homes have been erected, and those who have not been in...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...his mind flooded with dozens of cases of FHA discrimination. For example, he observed that, since he moved to Elbert County in 1952, the number of black farmers fell from...
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
...floats, barely visible through the early spring fog, advanced noisily down the seawall. Our targets—a consideration of oyster appellations and a revaluing of fish previously dismissed as trash—intermittently floated up...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...for?" In Florida, confusion over the voting eligibility of thousands of ex-felons has a number of interest groups involved in a campaign to clarify the voter rolls across the state....
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...as any. The fluidity of American culture — and I think ultimately region in the United States must be defined not politically or legally but in the most inclusive cultural...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...system became known, had its full flowering in cities like Atlanta where economic access, political power, and social interaction were denied or severely restricted. Blacks were confined to the lowest...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Dallas onwards, which treated Deep Ellum as "Harlem in Miniature," "Deep Elem Blues" has served as the emblematic song of the blues experience in Dallas (though it shares a number...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...survey, they had a discrete number of questions that they asked across different neighborhoods, they made a map of it—this was exactly what we’d do with structured data, and they’d...
Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...