Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
Introduction At high noon, Nashville time, on Monday, May 17, 1954, all nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington joined in a declaration that legally-sanctioned racial segregation...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...the starting of the service. It is also blown at midnight each December 31 to welcome the New Year. During the service, it is the custom for men to sit...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...infancy/beginning stage. In this stage, local citizens often trust that the coal company has their best interests at heart. They welcome the company for the employment and tax revenues it...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Atlanta are welcome, but priority will be given to papers that relate in some way to the themes listed above. Preference will also be given to proposals for fully constituted...
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...
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...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...a congregation in which his secrets and his song would be unwelcome, though he slake some secret thirsts, his orotund voice tune our ears to the river's whisper, a baby...
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...and its regions, or to issues of space and place. We welcome contributions and projects relating to any time period or musical genre and from any (inter)disciplinary framework. We especially...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, sixtieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, and the centennial of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. While we welcome...