Bodies and Souls
...Screenshot by Southern Spaces. I knew that I wanted to make a film about rural healthcare, largely explored through observational footage in a clinic, to shed light on the real...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...and the idea of recasting history for new audiences and times. He discusses how he drew from lived experience in Havana to craft Winter Escapes as well as how his...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
Review Sensory history is an exciting new approach to writing history. It offers a fresh take on past perceptions. Sensing between the lines of written sources, the sensory historian recasts...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...Map by John Scoles. Originally published in John Low's A New and Complete Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 64. Courtesy of the University of Georgia Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, hmap.libs.uga.edu/hmap/view?docId=hmap/hmap1810g4.xml. The age...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...enslaved became a defining characteristic of the slaveholding South" is not new (3). One of the strengths of The Slaveholding Crisis is its broad survey of the antebellum period through...
Black Population Atlanta and the Vicinity, 1940-1970
Maps for "White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta" Kevin Kruse, White Flight and the Making of Modern Conservatism Published: 28 November 2005 © 2006 Kevin...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...
The Cobb County Braves
...the new stadium will follow a current trend in stadium development in the United States. As teams build new ballparks with smaller capacities, ticket prices rise as demand increases. Furthermore,...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...online presentation from the University of Texas Press new Katrina Bookshelf Series. The book series is edited by Prof. Kai Erikson, former president of the American Sociological Association. Below is...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...the all-white Society for the Preservation of Spirituals, whose members had been "reared under the plantation traditions" and whose public performances and interpretations of African American spirituals as late as...