You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...years, working-class caregivers have faced a US political economy ever more hostile to their needs and concerns and increasingly demanding of their time and energy. Although overall poverty has decreased...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...class. He is the author of Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (2004), which won the American Culture Association's John G. Cawelti Book Prize. Wiese...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...eliminated sex discrimination because of the fact that in the subordinate position of women, we cut across all racial, class, social, economic lines and . . . so vast a...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...SECTION 1. The United States shall create a series of commons communities, each designed to include a specified number of households within a larger landscape that will be managed by...
Roadside Architecture
Introduction Como, Mississippi, 2004 I'm a very curious person. I don't pretend to know much about certain things, but I greatly enjoy the process of learning about things that pique...
Burning bright, Tysons Corner, Virginia, 2009
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
Janet Powell, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005. Located north of Oak Ridge and about thirty miles northwest of Knoxville, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm was built in the 2000s as...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
Review Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry, Cambridge University Press, 2011. In a few days, well before the first mosquito-killing frost reaches the South Carolina Lowcountry, I’ll head...
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...