The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...sees as the fixation of much historiography on territorial acquisition and filibustering expeditions. Yet, while Karp’s emphasis on foreign policy as a manifestation of institutional power is welcomed, he may overplay...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...Spaces," Southern Spaces welcomes submissions from scholars, activists, and artists who stand in this intersectional space and raise these critical questions. Southern Spaces asks contributors to consider what ways of...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...and evolving topic. His work is welcome in its ability to open up, both for academic and general readers, a historiography that can be as dauntingly complicated as the place...
Murray Mountain, North Carolina
...for a time and it's going to be gone. And now it is because the Welcome Center is right over here and it's lit up and is never going to...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...a key player in the city's racially-shifting midcentury real estate business and power structure. Collier Heights, originally a predominately white neighborhood in Atlanta’s southwest corner, would not have welcomed Russell...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...and Weiner acknowledges, much of this evidence is problematic because it was filtered through white interviewers and collectors. Weiner's thoroughly documented and well-organized book is a welcome addition to medical...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...scholarly work and refine our antiracist policies. We understand that social justice and change only come from sustained efforts, and we welcome your help and suggestions in keeping us accountable....
Bodies and Souls
...Before Sister Manette took on the clinic, there had been no healthcare available in Jonestown for 15 years. Jonestown, Mississippi Welcome Sign, November 4, 2011. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user chillin662....
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...monolithic "South," interrogates historical geographies over time, and maps expressive cultural forms associated with place. We welcome submissions from scholars, photographers, journalists, and artists in such areas as geography; southern...
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...