Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...on the centralized, coordinated, national road building ideas that had underlain the Dixie Highway. In using the Dixie Highway's history to map the contours of early twentieth century US highway...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...high rates of underemployment in states such as South Carolina and Kentucky have increased the numbers of low-income households, as has a general downturn in wages and real income over...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...of his grandfather's memorial, on the pages of the open stone Bible: My grandfather was born a slave and kept his Christian faith all his life. If some people are...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...the worldwide hierarchy of race that places lighter people over darker people. As educator, writer, and political activist he dedicated his life to the struggle for racial equality. But long...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...historian Hampton Dunn, who recognized the priceless value of the archive as a record of Tampa history. Dunn paid Cox $500 for an unspecified number of the negatives, some of...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...of the US South. Throughout Scott-Heron's expansive body of work, from his 1972 novel, The Nigger Factory, to his 2010 release, I'm New Here, the South looms large in his...
Submission Guidelines
...historical developments and geographies over time, and maps expressive cultural forms associated with place. We welcome submissions from scholars, photographers, journalists, and artists in such areas as geography, southern studies,...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...bound book; Stella Mae Richard, "Two Hidden Cemeteries in the Georgetown Section of Washington D.C.," Negro History Bulletin, Washington 32, no. 8 (Nov 1969): 29. In 1849, Oak Hill Cemetery, reserved for...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...South Intersections of music with place, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class Native American musics, Latina/o musics, musics of immigrant groups Local music scenes: punk, hardcore, rock, folk, hip-hop, emerging...