Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...current research project, Latino Immigrants and the Transformation of the U.S. South (2009), addresses the socio-cultural contexts, processes, and transformations of Latin American migration to the US South since 1965....
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...American Poets Prize, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the Fellowship of Southern Writers' James Still Award for Writing of the Appalachian South, the O. Henry Prize, and the Southern Book Critic...
The Southern Quarterly Call for Papers
...that Southern Spaces also continues to accept submissions on a rolling basis. For details, see our submission guidelines. From The Southern Quarterly: Celebrating fifty years of publication, The Southern Quarterly:...
The Black Belt
...Geologically, the region lies within the Gulf South's Coastal Plain in a crescent some twenty to twenty-five miles wide that stretches from eastern, south-central Alabama into northwestern Mississippi. The unusually...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...at his behest, had challenged Cemetery Ridge and had starved in the Petersburg trenches. Association with him was the glory of their generation."2Douglas Southall Freeman, The South to Posterity: An...
Brushes with War
...in Kansas City, while the Greenville County Museum of Art in South Carolina provided John Ross Key's wide-angle view called Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Siege of Charleston Harbor, 1863 (1865). (Key,...
"Aint that Something?"
...and subjects. Some of Appalachian literature's most acclaimed and best-known authors include James Still, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Wendell Berry, Jim Wayne Miller, Denise Giardina, and Lee Smith. Younger Appalachian authors...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
Review "I don't need a map to tell me where I am today." —Mike Cooley The Drive-By Truckers have always done their best and most arresting work about place. They...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...analysis—people—proposing that a deeper appreciation of the humans embedded in this landscape could help visualize a way out of our intractable commitment to oil. Ellen Spears, who previously curated Southern...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...from the South: Comprising Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts, and to the Southern States: With an Appendix Containing an Article from the Charleston Mercury on the Wilmot Proviso. Baltimore: Western...