Brushes with War
...General Sherman's approval, General George Stoneman's mounted troops hoped to grab headlines by pressing south to liberate Andersonville; instead, most were captured and marched to the infamous prison. In the...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...120] Whether or not the handkerchiefs in Rosa's quilt were products of this local factory, similar bandannas would have been widely available in local stores. Construction: Rosa Benson Snoddy framed...
Submission Guidelines
...the publication. All Southern Spaces articles, digital projects, and photo/media essays pass through a rigorous, double-blind peer review process with at least two external reviewers. All reviews, blog posts, videos, and presentations...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...southern studies alongside studies of immigration to the South, highlighting their disciplinary, methodological, empirical, and political differences. Although these fields have yet to speak to each other in sustained fashion,...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...York and Atlanta, most others ("The Displaced Person," "Greenleaf," and "The Enduring Chill") describe " atypical life" on working farms like Andalusia. Writing Rural Georgia O'Connor makes rural Georgia the...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...words, to see removal as a crucial, vexing part of the institutional and intellectual problem she discusses; but more attention needs to be given to the diverse, creative, at times...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...a land of multiracial social progress, the regional identity versus a national one, the national interest versus the international, amateur athletes versus professional ones, the integrity of the Olympic Movement's...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...Carolina, chartered in 1663, had its immediate origins in the counter-revolutionary and deeply conservative English Restoration. Its initial plan for government, the Fundamental Constitutions, endorsed slavery and feudal hierarchy. Moreover,...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...and audiovisual material documenting the SCLC, the collection includes records dating to the founding of the organization in 1957. The vast majority of material covers 1968–2007.4Records from the first ten...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...Katrina Reveals," (paper presented at Social Science & Medicine, Gender & Health Special Issue Workshop: Relational, Biosocial, and Intersectional Approaches, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, 2010);...