A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...and heard. When journalists asked William H. Jones, leader of the camp near Sikeston, what it was all about, he replied that after having been turned out of their homes...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...for them neither. We'd have to play basically what we had to play for highbrow white people." "Now, the regular black people you could play the blues for. That's what...
The Bulletin—November 1, 2012
...Association of Research Libraries which features attorneys and advocates involved in the recent Authors Guild v. HathiTrust case summarizing the ruling and its implications for libraries. In Florida, recently enacted...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...that emphasize spatial interpretation and utilize digital media. Southern Spaces welcomes submissions that: critically and creatively examine real and imagined spaces and places make connections and comparisons between southern regions...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...before the 1940s. My first major find appeared in the criminal records that, once I paired that data with immigration records and colonial records from the Bahamas, taught me that...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...and the readership of the Atlantic Monthly in which these stories appeared" (2). Hardwig's cogent and concise book helps us to understand the outsize role that gulf played in determining...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...him the job: "that impulsive outward swing of his hand that nearly described an arc, but an arc that in its downward swing, hesitated just long enough to give your...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...and other scholars have been so busy whittling away at that old standard story that today only a stump remains. Even the National History Standards, written and approved during a...
The Southern Quarterly Call for Papers
...that Southern Spaces also continues to accept submissions on a rolling basis. For details, see our submission guidelines. From The Southern Quarterly: Celebrating fifty years of publication, The Southern Quarterly:...