Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...South. Although southern rural music expressed the hopes, aspirations, failures, and hardships of rural people, farming culture remained invisible to most listeners. The work culture that produced the music—farmers plowing,...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...B. Freedman, Barbara C. Gelpi, Susan L. Johnson, and Kathleen M. Weston, (eds.) The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985]: 224.) Using Krieger's typology, Atlanta's Little Five...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...Turner, of H-Southern-Lit, and is a contributing editor for Digital Yoknapatawpha. About the Interviewers This interview was conducted by Southern Spaces staff members Sarah Van Horn Melton and Emma Lirette....
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...the Lowcountry Digital Library at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. With grant support from the Humanities Council of South Carolina and a major award from the Gaylord and Dorothy...
The Shenandoah Valley
...promote railroad and coal mining throughout southwestern Virginia, Appalachia, and the Valley in the 1870s and 1880s. The beauty of the region attracted investors to build hotels and resorts,...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food (Fall 2011). Engelhardt is also co-editing (with John T. Edge and Ted Ownby) a forthcoming volume about southern food methodologies. Originally...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...too young to see movies like Sleeper, Raging Bull, and Paper Moon when they came out watched them for free in the air-conditioned quiet of the seventh floor of the...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...was back then, and it still is. Distant Kin: Black Oxford and the Creek Freedmen These elders had long been fascinated by the stories of the Creek Freedmen, descendants of...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...from the South: Comprising Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts, and to the Southern States: With an Appendix Containing an Article from the Charleston Mercury on the Wilmot Proviso. Baltimore: Western...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...states' voting laws and protect minority voters is substantially diminished. As Steve Suitts argued in a recent Southern Spaces piece ("Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern...