Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
Southern Spaces is pairing with Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library (MARBL) to publish short features on MARBL collections, events, and exhibits that tell the history of spaces...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
Review In this impressive volume edited by Cécile Vidal a collection of historians seek to recover a "marginalized" past (16) within American history. Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
Review From colonial founders' initial resistance to slavery to antebellum whites' embrace of it, Watson W. Jennison's Cultivating Race charts the first hundred years of Georgia's Anglo, African, and Native American...
Social Justice Environmentalism
Essay In a 2017 essay, National Museum of African American History and Culture director Lonnie Bunch noted that, like much of black history, environmental activism by people of color is...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
Excerpt After the end of the Civil War, recently freed Black people endeavored to create their own communities. During Reconstruction, and with newfound access to political and economic power, Black...
Reckoning with Enslavement
Excerpt Georgetown, April 2017 It was early morning when I crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge from Virginia into Georgetown. College spires loomed in the distance, gray in the dawn...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...say there are five thousand Creek speakers left, but nobody seems to know where that number comes from, and many suggest there are only a few hundred speakers, some even far fewer....
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...
California Creek, North Carolina
...the rock face that will need to be drilled and piped, California Creek, NC, 2000. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Drainage control culverts to control runoff from springs which would...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...and following the luxury of performance, not driven or pushed by me, but handsomely funded by the Rockerfeller Foundation, Imoinda has more recently been subjected to some artistic compromise. The...