Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...of minutes, the chaotic scene turned deadly. Steps away from his mother, a thirteen year-old-white boy lay motionless on the ground, bleeding profusely from the head. A few hours later,...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...in engaging the digital humanities as something I wanted to build into my historical toolbox was when my advisor Ed Ayers came back from a 2005 trip to Dallas. He...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...as its various members move around the state of Texas while always staying within each other's orbits. One antecedent for this project is François Truffaut's series of films following the...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...wicker basket being passed around. I think it's safe to say nobody here's gonna be splitting the atom, Marty."12Cary Joji Fukunaga, "The Locked Room," True Detective (HBO, January 12, 2014),...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...lesser-studied works. Robert Fieseler's Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation captures with precision the narratives around the New Orleans fire...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...went into arms and by mid-March 2021, a quarter of the population had received at least one vaccine; six months later that number rose to 85 percent. Although Black Democrats...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...Composed Exclusively For the Under Ground Rail Road (1854), written for abolitionists ferrying enslaved people to freedom. The Emancipation Car includes forty-three poems, all meant to be sung to then-popular...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...The total number of violent incidents identified in the sample undoubtedly represents only a fraction of those which actually transpired.16For an analysis of racist violence in Kansas, see Brent MacDonald...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...