Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...and William Smith’s 1801 songbook, The Easy Instructor, makes a case for the utility of shape notes in the singing school context. This innovation, designed to simplify sight-reading, was widely...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...just down the road. This is how redevelopment of the Mississippi Gulf Coast will no doubt go: where there's money to be made, the process will move along. Places without...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. October 1 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the integration of the University of Mississippi. A number of media outlets reflected upon how...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...Highway state and the road's southern destination. With the highway a key to south Florida's 1920s real estate and tourism boom (and with both state and private developers sponsoring other...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...I was sore at the old gang and went and hooked up with the new one. (116) Woody characteristically sides with the underdog and uses his talents with language to...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...for jobs and living space with whites, many of whom, like themselves, were poor migrants from the Georgia piedmont. Without slavery to ensure white supremacy, white southerners developed a system...
Deep Ellum Blues
...shacks, often with trees in the front and backyard gardens, sometimes even a chicken or two, along with the odd public housing project, small and squat, built around a desolate...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...half of the United States will emerge with a majority of low-income students within the next five to seven years. Currently, such students constitute forty-six percent of US public school...
Submission Guidelines
...media, are securely archived. There is no cost to authors to submit to or publish in Southern Spaces. Published items will not be affiliated with a volume or issue but will...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...I could do with visualization and mapping. I wanted to experiment with what I could do with a particular data set. Maybe that wasn’t the most profound piece of digital...