Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942 (2007) as well as No Ordinary Sacrifice: New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South, 1917–1929 (forthcoming). She is also coediting (with...
Brushes with War
...Winslow Homer. Courtesy of the Portland Museum of Art, 1992.41. Near Andersonville, 1866. Oil on Canvas by Winslow Homer. Courtesy of the Newark Musem, 66.354. Prisoners from the Front, 1866....
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Lomax, Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads (New York: MacMillian, 1941); Barry Jean Ancelet, Cajun Music: Its Origins and Development (Lafayette, LA: Center for Louisiana Studies, 1989); Barry Jean...
The Border South
...the secession crisis his administration faced upon taking office. He famously observed that "to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game" and considered its neutrality,...
Good-Bye to All That?
...vote, losing to a widely disliked Republican opponent who had led the GOP's attack on public education in North Carolina. In her 2008 election, Hagan had lost to Elizabeth Dole...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...worked in the music printing company Kieffer's grandfather, the Mennonite Joseph Funk, owned. The two reunited over a shared love of shape-note singing and a desire to reclaim "the pastoral...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...of work for over a year. He was in real estate development and had shared with my husband that he had lost almost everything they had. His wife Laura is...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...return, of repeatedly revisiting the same sites in Hale County. The six photographs on display here of Coleman’s Café in Greensboro in 1971, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1978, and 1980 literally...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
...of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), and Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family (Oxford: Oxford University...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...Karen. "Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility." Southern Spaces, April 15, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/segregations-new-geography-atlanta-metro-region-race-and-declining-prospects-upward-mobility. Solomon, Eric. "Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization...