Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
Deep Ellum Blues
...has been a place where products are financed, brokered, and transported: leather and buffalo hides in the first place, followed by cotton and oil, clothing and technology. In fact, as...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...has absorbed them, is using them, and will build upon them. In some places, social change comes in the volcanic eruption of revolution, while in academia change generally comes from...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
Coinciding with the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Southern Spaces and the University of Texas Press announce a collaborative publishing project. "No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...people, places and historical moments. Essays addressing key elements in The Sacred Harp’s origin, development, and character comprise the first quarter of Makers, setting the stage for the book’s biographical...
The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...long career, she never "took her hand off the plow" of social justice, and once her course was set, she did not look back. Interviews with a number of activists...
A City Divided
...when a fire damaged historically black Morris Brown College in January 1910, whites sought the opportunity to purchase the property for the "greater white development" of the lower Fourth Ward...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...from place to place. Pargas divides the nation's enslaved population into three major groups—interstate migrants, intrastate migrants, and those who were hired to urban employers. These categories frame his argument...